November 17, 2025 Erasing Your Online Data Data brokers are amassing tons of our personal information, often from public sources. You can try to find all of these brokers and request…
October 20, 2025 Securing Old Accounts Now that we’ve tracked down all our old online accounts, it’s time to make them more secure and review the data they contain. We…
August 25, 2025 Going on a Data Diet The world wide web, as we know it today, has been around for over 30 years. In that time, most of us have created…
August 18, 2025 I’m Just a (Privacy) Bill Why don’t we have meaningful privacy laws in the US? While we haven’t been able to pass federal privacy legislation, many states have managed…
August 11, 2025 Hacker Summer Camp 2025 It’s early August, which means it’s time for BSides Las Vegas and DEF CON, part of the trio of conferences that make up “hacker…
July 7, 2025 Defending Student Privacy Privacy risks are bad enough for adults – but it’s much worse for our kids, particularly as students. Who provides notice and obtains consent…
June 9, 2025 Dialog with the Data Diva Debbie Reynolds (aka, The Data Diva) has been working in the privacy realm for many years, as a privacy consultant, speaker, advisor and podcaster….
May 26, 2025 Dividing Trust VPNs were not invented for privacy, despite the name – they were invented for security. Nevertheless, in recent years, they have been touted as…
April 28, 2025 Riding the Data Gravy Train Data brokers are out of control. While we think of them gathering data in order to target us with ads, they can actually use…
February 24, 2025 Onion Routing Not all Privacy Enhancing Technologies are new – but this one is probably new to you. Onion routing was developing in the 1990’s by…
