April 10, 2023 Reviewing Mullvad Browser Right after releasing my episode on web fingerprinting, highly-respected VPN provider Mullvad teamed up with Tor to release a new web browser, specifically designed…
February 6, 2023 Combatting Surveillance Capitalism The business of data mining and behavioral advertising has never been stronger or more ubiquitous. And yet, cracks are beginning to appear in the…
January 9, 2023 Privacy Tide is Turning Facebook stock is down 65%, they just paid $725M to settle the Cambridge Analytica lawsuit, and they’ve just been fined over $400M by the…
December 5, 2022 Tis the Season for Scams Tis the season for giving… and unfortunately, also for taking. Scammers tend to be extremely active during the holiday season. We’re buying lots of…
October 24, 2022 Your TV is Watching You This is going to sound bonkers, even though you’re used to so many things tracking you… web pages, emails, and apps… but I’m here…
October 10, 2022 Mobile Payment Fraud Cold hard cash is becoming more and more rare these days. People just don’t carry it around much any more. So how do you…
June 27, 2022 Total Cookie Protection Firefox officially rolled out its Total Cookie Protection feature last week, which is a clever and elegant solution for blocking tracking using third party…
May 30, 2022 Emergency Mode Modern smartphones have a potentially life-saving feature called “SOS” or “Emergency” mode that can give first responders critical medical information and automatically dial your…
May 2, 2022 What is the Most Private Browser? Security isn’t a big differentiator today when choosing a web browser. First of all, 3 of the top 5 browsers all use the same…
February 7, 2022 De-Google Your Life One of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2022 is to minimize my Google footprint. In reality, it’s very difficulty to completely avoid Google products,…
