Category: Privacy

Bugs found in Alexa’s web services could have allowed hackers to gain access to voice recordings and personal data stored on Amazon’s servers. Some of […]

Well, it could be worse. TikTok could be hit by a giant data breach that exposes your account credentials and private video clips to the […]

Did your Garmin watch suddenly stop working on Thursday? You’re not alone. The company was hit by an alleged ransomware attack that shut down all […]

If you and your roommates are completely new to BitTorrent, or you’ve downloaded enough Linux distributions, open source movies, and concert recordings to get your […]

Covering your webcam is one of the oldest privacy tips, but some MacBook owners have made the annoying discovery that third-party covers can damage your […]

If you’ve ever logged into a third-party app or website using your Facebook account, you should take a moment and update a few security settings. […]

Does your voice assistant often seem too impatient to intervene ? A recent study by the Ruhr University in Bochum and the Max Planck Institute […]

Recent social media posts (which I won’t link to, but you can easily find them by searching Twitter) claim that Apple and Google are installing […]

If you use WhatsApp’s Click to Chat feature, your phone number may appear in Google search results. Click to Chat allows users to create URL […]

Just like turning off GPS on your phone or limiting the data you share with Google , people have a right to digital privacy, but […]

There are many free group video chat and teleconferencing apps . Many of them advertise their privacy and security features. The fact that they block […]

As with nearly every aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is still a lot we don’t know about effective contact tracing. At this point, contact […]

The new Signal PIN feature adds an extra layer of security to your encrypted messaging app and makes it easy to move your account across […]

The popular third-party email client Edison Mail recently gave a small number of iOS users access to email addresses that didn’t belong to them. It […]

To slow the seemingly endless spread of COVID-19 misinformation on social media, Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) has launched a WhatsApp chatbot to help you […]

Email Burner is the best invention since Hotmail. And persistent emails – the fake addresses you give when you sign up for services that are […]

Video chatting and telecommuting applications are currently in use around the world, but as we’ve learned over the past few weeks, they can pose a […]

Know before tweeting: Twitter now sells more information about your activities on its platform to third-party advertisers, regardless of which privacy settings you turn on […]

Nowadays, everyone uses Zoom-ing, unless you prefer one of the reliable alternatives to a meeting solution with a permanent virtual background. And while you’ve probably […]

If you are a big WhatsApp user, I implore you: stop posting links to your group chats in public. And tell everyone in your group […]

It seems like a lot of people aren’t going to give up on their expensive video doorbells no matter what Ring does – either because […]

We all know that Facebook tracks what you do when you use its apps and website, but the social media monolith also collects data from […]

Targeted ads that appear on your Facebook feed or Twitter feed can seem terribly intrusive. after all, they often show up using personal information such […]

Unsurprisingly, any content you offer on the Internet for public consumption can be retrieved and misused by anyone smart enough to do so. While that […]

Yahoo and Verizon’s new search engine , OneSearch , is a completely different product from the Yahoo search of yesteryear. Not only does OneSearch opt […]

Facebook kicks off 2020 by updating its privacy checker tool, introduced back in 2014, that makes it easier for users to find and change some […]

Removing an app from your smartphone takes a matter of seconds, but you need to do more than just uninstall the app if you’re trying […]

You can tell it’s January from all the gym selfies, fitness tracker screenshots, and overly enthusiastic photos of carbohydrate-free meals flooding your social media feeds. […]

A recent security breach has leaked more than 2.4 million users of Wyze CCTV cameras. The compromised database has remained unsecured and publicly available, and […]

We all know that our phones and apps track our locations – and it seems that most of us are resigned to the fact that […]

Back in 2017, Unroll.me – a third-party service that tries to unsubscribe you from unsolicited threads and newsletters – was criticized for collecting user information, […]

There are many reasons why you might want to track some of the places you visit on Google Maps, but perhaps not all of them. […]

We always recommend keeping your list of extensions lightweight, because you never know when something might be trying to intercept data from your browser – […]

Many people buy TVs on Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday, but there is a lot you will want to consider when setting up your Smart […]

Regularly removing unused apps from your smartphone (and disabling unnecessary app permissions) does more than just free up extra storage space – it helps keep […]

If you need a little help figuring out how to lock your smart home devices (or the ones you are about to purchase), Mozilla is […]

There is ample evidence that Facebook is always tracking our data, but a new issue found in the Facebook iOS app suggests that the company […]

IT guru Bob Gendler spoke on Medium last week to share a startling discovery about Apple Mail. If you have an app set up to […]

If you are using one of the Amazon Ring doorbell devices, you should change your home Wi-Fi password immediately. According to Techcrunch , Ring doorbell […]

You just downloaded the most popular new app, and now you need to flip through the placeholder text pages before you can use it. Who […]