It's that time of year again - time to make your New Years Resolutions! You know all those really important things I've been telling you to do, but you haven't done? Well, I'm listing out the top ones on today's show - and challenging each of you to ch...

Several US states are trialing programs to replace the venerable plastic driver's license card with a new smartphone app. Unlike the "dumb" physical cards, the app would always be up to date. One study showed that 77% of all US adults have a smartphone...

It's bad enough that online ads are watching us, but now billboards and other real world ads are watching us, too. Using video cameras and signals from our smart devices, marketers are tailoring their billboards and digital signage based on our appeara...

Marriott reports this week that it has exposed up to 500 million Starwood guests’ data going back as far as 2014. Affected hotels include Sheraton, Westin, W Hotels, Starwood timeshares and more, While it’s still not clear how much data may have been s...

Our mobile phones today are chock full of private information and are constantly tattling about our whereabouts and activities. Most phones today have GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, motion detectors, magnetic field detectors, microphones, cameras,

The gift-giving season is once again upon us! “Smart” devices make great presents, but you want to make sure that you’re not also giving a gift to the hackers out there! In this special, annual holiday episode,

Just because the caller ID says it’s the IRS or the Social Security Administration, don’t believe it. It’s almost surely a scammer trying to get your money or information. Government agencies don’t call people to confirm information in their records ab...

Your physical world is governed by many laws and regulations that protect your freedom and privacy. Why should the digital world be any different? Todd Weaver, CEO and Found of Purism, explains how Big Tech managed to write the rules for the digital wo...

We all know how marketers are tracking our every move on the world wide web. But now they’re starting to track you in the real world, too. Security cameras exist everywhere, but companies have now decided to add facial recognition software to those sys...

The reports of net neutrality’s death have been greatly exaggerated. We still have time for Congress to reinstate the federal rules that were struck down by the FCC. In the meantime, states like California are taking matters into their own hands,