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What is data privacy? And why should your business care?

In today’s hyperconnected world, where every message, file, and decision passes through digital systems, data privacy has become more than a legal requirement – it’s a core business responsibility. However, many companies still view privacy as something to be “handled by IT” or as a matter of ticking boxes to comply with regulations. That mindset is outdated and dangerous.

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Illustration of a secured building inside a blue circle, surrounded by padlock icons, symbolizing data protection. A green check mark indicates the building is secure.
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What is data privacy? And why should your business care?

In today’s hyperconnected world, where every message, file, and decision passes through digital systems, data privacy has become more than a legal requirement – it’s a core business responsibility. However, many companies still view privacy as something to be “handled by IT” or as a matter of ticking boxes to comply with regulations. That mindset is outdated and dangerous.
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Fun Facts to Celebrate World Emoji Day

Every year on July 17, World Emoji Day is celebrated. Because emojis have become indispensable for chat communication – whether as a reaction to a message or directly in the text – we have put together a few fun facts about the little pictograms.
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How to Get Your Friends to Use Threema

You use Threema, but your contacts can’t get away from WhatsApp and Co.? If this situation sounds familiar, here are a few practical tips and arguments that can help you convince those around you to use a messaging service that respects their privacy.
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Online Ads and Data Privacy

Earlier this week, Meta announced that WhatsApp will start to show ads to its users. We wanted to outline why online ads and data privacy are fundamentally incompatible, but as it turns out, WhatsApp beat us to it – by exactly 13 years.
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Air Gap: Communication in an Isolated System

If you’ve seen “Mission: Impossible,” you probably remember the iconic vault scene in which Tom Cruise is hanging upside down from the ceiling trying to access secret data. The stunt is nerve-wracking, but he had no other way to access the data: the computer could not simply have been hacked because it was not connected to a network – it was “air-gapped.”
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Say No to Mass Surveillance

There are always new attempts by governments to systematically monitor Internet users for no reason. However, mass surveillance is not only unsuitable for fighting crime, it is also completely incompatible with democratic principles and poses a considerable threat to data security.
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Data Minimization: The Secret Recipe for Sustainable Digitalization of Universities

Have you ever wondered why you have to provide personal information when shopping online? All too often, information such as the phone number and date of birth is provided without hesitation. But does the online shop really need all this information just to deliver baby diapers, for example?
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New Desktop App: Now Available for Threema for Android!

Good news for Android users who like to chat from the computer: the beta version of Threema’s new desktop app (which was already available to iOS users) can now also be linked to Android devices.
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The Limits of Encryption

The recent news story about a group chat where military information was leaked to a journalist due to human error shows that strong encryption isn’t sufficient for a corporate – let alone governmental – messaging service.
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