March 7, 2022 My De-Google Strategy As my de-Google project progresses, I realized that I skipped the most important step: reconnaissance. Before you can de-Google your life, you need to…
February 28, 2022 Securing Your Mobile Device Your cell phone is a super computer and phenomenally powerful tracking device. Even George Orwell wouldn’t have dreamed that telescreens would be pocket sized…
February 21, 2022 De-Google Your Life (Part 2) One of my big goals for 2022 was to minimize my Google footprint. In the last news show, I covered Google Search, Chrome and…
February 14, 2022 Free & Open Source Software You may not know it, but our world has already been basically taken over by free and open source software, or FOSS – specifically,…
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,…
January 31, 2022 Searching for Privacy We tell our search engines a lot of very personal things. They arguably know more about us than our best friends and significant others…
January 24, 2022 Building a Privacy-Respecting World Personal data privacy isn’t going to just happen on its own. We have to somehow collectively construct it. But how? Will it require regulation…
January 17, 2022 Data Privacy Week 2022 Of course, every week should be “data privacy week”, but we do set aside a specific time each year to focus on privacy –…
January 10, 2022 2022 New Year’s Resolutions It’s the start of a brand new calendar year! And therefore it’s time to engage in that annual ritual of planning to do better…
January 3, 2022 The State of Kids’ Privacy Navigating the online world today is hard enough as an adult. But it’s way worse for kids. Not only are they short on life…