Zoom went from an obscure teleconferencing company to a household word when the pandemic hit. Zoom wasn’t the best videoconferencing app by any means. But it was dead simple to use and kinda fun to say. For better or worse,

For better or for worse, the internet today is funded by advertising. While ads can be annoying, the real issue isn't having to watch ads - it's when then ads watch us. AdTech today is premised on invasive personal data collection.

In the second half of my interview with the EFF’s Lindsay Oliver and Jason Kelley, we talk about how these draconian surveillance systems put several students at a distinct disadvantage and how the teacher themselves feel about all of this.

In this time of COVID19, we've all had to learn to work and learn from home. But how do our bosses know we're not screwing around instead of working? How do our teachers know we're not cheating? It turns out that they're both willing to go to extremely...

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month! The theme this year is: if you connect it, protect it! And given how popular IoT devices are these days, and also how horrid their security usually is, this advice has never been more important.

What do Apple, Tyson Foods and Worldwide Wrestling (WWE) all have in common? And what is "chickenization"? In part 2 of my interview with Cory Doctorow, he explains how some markets in the US economy are completely distorted by dominant sellers as well...

Apple and Epic Games are locked in an epic legal (and PR) battle that may determine the future of the App Store, the Google Play Store, and several other game distribution networks. At the heart of this debate is the disproportionate influence the app ...

If you're a Windows PC user, you know the term "bloatware", or maybe "crapware". Every consumer PC comes chock full of it. Free trials of games, cloud storage services and antivirus software. Half a dozen "helper" apps from the PC manufacturer.

Enterprising scammers have found some very clever ways to trick you into believing your computer needs fixing, when in reality it's just fine. Using various techniques, fake web pop-up alerts can cause your browser or computer to seem sluggish or malfu...

Did you know that Google's search can track you on a non-Chrome browser, even if you block third party cookies? And did you also know that there's a gaping privacy hole in web surfing that even a VPN may not fix?