If security is about keeping the bad stuff out, privacy is about deciding what stays in—and who gets to see what.
At home, privacy might mean:
Closing your curtains
Locking a personal drawer
Keeping your important papers in a safe
Online, it’s similar. Privacy means:
Controlling who can access your sensitive data
Protecting personal info like your name, address, or payment details
Deciding who can “see in”—and who can’t
How is privacy protected?
The most common tool is encryption—a method that scrambles your data so only someone with the right “key” can read it.
There are two main types:
At rest: when your files are sitting in storage
In transit: when your files are moving across the internet
Another powerful technique is data anonymization, which removes identifiable details from a dataset. For example, anonymized health data lets researchers study trends without knowing who the data belongs to.
At Hivenet, we care about both types of privacy—personal and technical—and we design our systems to protect both.
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