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…
December 27, 2021 The Best of 2021 We’ve come to the end of another year. As we take a breather and gather with family and friends for the holidays, it’s a…
December 20, 2021 The Log4Shell Debacle The internet is on fire this week. The worst cybersecurity vulnerability of the last ten years (and perhaps more) has kicked the internet ant…
December 13, 2021 End Run Around Your Rights The rampant collection and sharing of personal data is not just a creepy nuisance. Surveillance capitalism has actually had seriously deleterious effects on society…
