December 24, 2018 Replacing Your Plastic Driver’s License Several US states are trialing programs to replace the venerable plastic driver’s license card with a new smartphone app. Unlike the “dumb” physical cards,…
December 17, 2018 Ads Are Tracking You in the Real World, Too It’s bad enough that online ads are watching us, but now billboards and other real world ads are watching us, too. Using video cameras…
December 10, 2018 Marriott’s Massive Data Breach Marriott reports this week that it has exposed up to 500 million Starwood guests’ data going back as far as 2014. Affected hotels include…
November 26, 2018 Lock Down Your Privacy on Your Mobile Devices Our mobile phones today are chock full of private information and are constantly tattling about our whereabouts and activities. Most phones today have GPS,…
November 19, 2018 The Best & Worst Gifts for 2018 The gift-giving season is once again upon us! “Smart” devices make great presents, but you want to make sure that you’re not also giving…
November 12, 2018 Phone Scammers Are Spoofing Your Caller ID Just because the caller ID says it’s the IRS or the Social Security Administration, don’t believe it. It’s almost surely a scammer trying to…
November 5, 2018 Why You Should Care About the Future of Computing Your physical world is governed by many laws and regulations that protect your freedom and privacy. Why should the digital world be any different?…
October 29, 2018 Marketers Are Tracking You On and Off the Web We all know how marketers are tracking our every move on the world wide web. But now they’re starting to track you in the…
October 22, 2018 The Fight for Net Neutrality is Far from Over The reports of net neutrality’s death have been greatly exaggerated. We still have time for Congress to reinstate the federal rules that were struck…
October 15, 2018 Did China Implant Spy Chips in Our Computers? Bloomberg claims that Chinese manufacturers have implanted tiny spy chips into many of our computer systems. Apple, Amazon and others strenuously deny this. Who’s…
