December 2, 2019 Best & Worst Gifts for 2019 It’s that time of year again – time to see which popular gifts make my privacy/security Naughty and Nice lists! You want to make…
November 11, 2019 The Rise of Browser Fingerprinting Marketing companies have come up with may clever ways to track our travels around the web, hoping to garner as much information about us…
October 28, 2019 Dropping Dropbox I’ve been a Dropbox user for many, many years. But recently, they’ve gotten really pushy – trying to get me to save all my…
October 7, 2019 Don’t Forget to Wipe Your Data What happens to all the files, photos, songs and other data on your devices when you resell them or throw them away? Well, if…
September 16, 2019 Google’s Not-So-Private Sandbox No doubt sensing the impending US privacy regulations, Google has released a plan to “enhance” user privacy… by finding different ways to track you….
September 9, 2019 Ring’s Orwellian Doorbell Today we speak with EFF’s Matthew Guariglia about the creepy new partnership between Amazon’s Ring Doorbell division and local law enforcement. Recent disclosures reveal…
July 8, 2019 Big Brother 2.0 The US government is once again looking to break or hobble encrypted communications in the name of national security and law enforcement. They claim…
June 9, 2019 A Tale of Two Browsers: Chrome vs Firefox Google Chrome is the most popular web browser on the planet by far, used by about two thirds of all web surfers. But Google…
June 2, 2019 Polling on Privacy (Pt2) Is it possible to hide your tracks online? Is it even worth the effort to try? How do you know which companies, products and…
May 26, 2019 Polling on Privacy (Pt1) In January of this year, Malwarebytes (a world-class antivirus software maker) conducted a massive poll on privacy that included 4000 people from 66 different…
