AwarenessYour devices, car & home
What your network sees
Your broadband and mobile provider can see every site you connect to.
Understand it
Even when a site is encrypted, your internet provider can see which sites and services you connect to, and when - and your mobile network knows roughly where you are from the masts you use. A VPN moves that trust to the VPN company; it does not make the connection vanish.
How to spot it
This is invisible by nature - assume your provider can log the fact of each connection.
Close the gap
- Use encrypted DNS (DNS-over-HTTPS) so your lookups aren’t in the clear.
- A trusted, audited VPN shifts the view away from your provider - choose carefully.
- Prefer services that can’t see the content, like end-to-end-encrypted messaging.
- On mobile, know that location via masts can’t be switched off - only limited.
What to do about it
This is what your gadgets and network quietly give off. You can't silence all of it, but reviewing each device's privacy settings - and the device steps in your plan - pulls it back a long way.