The next step in reducing our digital footprint is to identify all of our online accounts, including the long forgotten and unused ones. The easiest place to start is by using the tool we should alrea

We take our cell phones with us everywhere - which makes them the perfect tracking device. Just walking around with your device will give your location away in multiple ways. But even if you had no ap

The world wide web, as we know it today, has been around for over 30 years. In that time, most of us have created many dozens, perhaps hundreds, of online accounts. How many of those accounts are stil

Why don't we have meaningful privacy laws in the US? While we haven't been able to pass federal privacy legislation, many states have managed to pass laws protecting our data and establishing some bas

It's early August, which means it's time for BSides Las Vegas and DEF CON, part of the trio of conferences that make up "hacker summer camp" (the other being Black Hat, which I don't attend). It's bee

Cory Doctorow has garnered a lot of needed attention to the decline of modern online platforms, including Google Search, Facebook and Twitter. Much of this is a result of coining the now-viral term En

We take our phones with us everywhere. And they contain, or have cloud access to, pretty much all of our personal information and online accounts. While phone makers have made it difficult for thieves

We talk a lot about digital or online security. Today we're going to focus on physical security and the general ethos of "be prepared". There are many situations in life when you will find yourself wi

Your cell phone number uniquely identifies you. Many companies rely on this 1-to-1 relationship to authenticate you to their systems. So if someone were to somehow manage to steal your mobile phone nu

Privacy risks are bad enough for adults - but it's much worse for our kids, particularly as students. Who provides notice and obtains consent for minors at school? In many cases it's not the parents,