Modern smartphones have a potentially life-saving feature called "SOS" or "Emergency" mode that can give first responders critical medical information and automatically dial your country's emergency p

There's a lot we can glean from history but sometimes it's not as obvious as you might think. For example, did you know that until the mid-1800's, most of Americans hated tomatoes and that ketchup was

When we surf the web today - on our computers or smartphones - we are mercilessly tracked. Marketing firms and data brokers are hoovering up ungodly amounts of our personal data, selling it, trading i

We are being tracked constantly by our cell phones. We willingly carry supercomputers in our pockets 24/7, and these devices are chock full of sensors and radios that are tattling on us. Sometimes on

Security isn't a big differentiator today when choosing a web browser. First of all, 3 of the top 5 browsers all use the same engine - Chrome, Edge and Opera are all based on Chromium. Second, there's

Google and Facebook will swear up and down that they do not sell your data. While technically true, they do sell access to your data. Basically, your data is private from everyone - but them. And that

When people don't understand how something works, it can be easy to be afraid of the consequences of that thing not working right. And this also makes them ripe targets for being frightened by huckste

Today, most of us take the internet - and access to the internet - for granted. It's ubiquitous. However, the current war in Ukraine has (hopefully) made us realize that things can change dramatically

I wrap up my de-Google project this week with two biggies: Google Drive and Google Docs. I decided to reduce my Google data footprint as one of my 2022 New Year's resolutions, so I've done a ton of re

Today I'm speaking with a fellow privacy evangelist: Henry from Techlore. Like me, Henry and his team are on a mission to teach regular, everyday people how to secure their data and improve their priv