Two years after the massive Equifax breach, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached a tentative settlement that will purportedly provide some restitution to the 148 million Americans who whose data was leaked. Unfortunately,

In the second half of my interview with Winston Privacy CEO Richard Stokes, we talk about why your data is so valuable to advertisers and what you can do to limit all this tracking. In particular, we'll discuss the Winston box which acts as a sort of f...

Protecting your privacy today is hard. It's really hard. It's too hard. Every 'smart' device you own is tattling on you, constantly, to dozens of companies. Your phone, your tablet, your PC, your TV, your streaming box, your DVR,

The US government is once again looking to break or hobble encrypted communications in the name of national security and law enforcement. They claim that we're "going dark" - that modern end-to-end encryption used in apps like Signal and Wickr that pro...

Why do most VPN apps suck so badly? How do you know which VPN service providers you can trust with your privacy? How is it that our internet service providers know so much about our web surfing habits? Today I explore these questions and more with John...

How many of your "smart" devices are smart enough to update their own software? For that matter, how many of them can upgrade at all? It's a good bet that most of them run some flavor of the free and open-source Linux operating system.

In today's show I have a sobering discussion with the EFF's Eva Galperin about the rise of stalkerware (sometimes called "spouseware"). It's become all too easy for abusive, unscrupulous people to spy on their significant others,

Google Chrome is the most popular web browser on the planet by far, used by about two thirds of all web surfers. But Google is an advertising company and ad blockers are a direct threat to their business model.

Is it possible to hide your tracks online? Is it even worth the effort to try? How do you know which companies, products and services you can trust? Is government regulation the answer? We'll address all of these questions today in part 2 of my intervi...

In January of this year, Malwarebytes (a world-class antivirus software maker) conducted a massive poll on privacy that included 4000 people from 66 different countries. On today's show, I will delve into the key takeaways from this poll and some rathe...