EP01 | Understanding Your Online Presence with Rajat Sharma

Info Under The Radar

In our very first episode of Info Under the Radar we are going to understand our online presence. What happens behind the scenes with our data, how companies process our data, what about those annoying cookie banners? We are also gonna talk about how people from different cultures think about privacy differently.

We are going to touch on many aspects of our online presence along with our guest Rajat Sharma. Rajat is currently a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at booking.com and lives in Amsterdam. Prior to this, he was living in India where he was working for Zomato, which is India’s leading food delivery startup. He has been interested in the domain of cybersecurity since his college days and has extensive experience in it.

Rajat answered our many questions related to Encryption, what’s the fuss with WhatsApp policy changes, how companies use metadata, and more. He also recommends a few key steps we can take to improve our privacy while browsing online.

We also talked to him about Have I Been Pwned? which is a site to find out if your personal data has been exposed due to data breaches and what to do if our data gets exposed.

Rajat recommended some useful resources in our conversation, they are as follows.

• How to be invisible by J.J. Luna
  
• Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
  
• TED Talks on Data privacy, online identity, cybersecurity
  

You can find Rajat(@r4j47) online on his Twitter.

You can find your hosts Vishwajeet (@vishwajeets3) and Devendra (@InDevOut) on Twitter. Feel free to reach them out on Twitter for any kind of feedback!