Your Television Is Watching You Watch It. Most smart TVs sold today include a quiet feature that has nothing to do with streaming your favorite shows. It watches what appears on your screen — every second of it — identifies what you are watching, and sends that information back to the manufacturer and its advertising [...]
Google Knows More About You Than You Do. Here Is How to See It. If someone told you there was a detailed archive of everything you have searched for, every video you have watched, every place you have visited, every email you have sent and received, every app you have used, and every device you [...]
There Is a Microphone in Your Living Room and It Never Sleeps. Somewhere in your home — possibly in multiple rooms — there is a device with a microphone that is always on. It is listening right now. It has been listening since the day you plugged it in. And the audio it captures does [...]
That Email You Just Opened Already Reported Back. The moment you opened that newsletter, that promotional email, that message from a brand you once purchased from — a signal went out. Not to you. Away from you. Back to the sender's server, carrying information you never agreed to share and probably never knew you were [...]
Your Passwords Are Only As Safe As the Company Holding Them. Cloud storage is convenient. Cloud password managers are convenient. Automatic backups to the cloud are convenient. Convenience, however, is not the same as secure — and the gap between those two things has cost millions of people dearly. When you store your passwords, your [...]
Companies You Have Never Met Manipulate Everything They Think They Know About You. We have already covered the data broker industry — who they are, where they get their data, and who buys it. This post is different. This one is about you specifically. About what your profile actually looks like. About how it is [...]
You Do Not Have to Be Online to Be Tracked. Most conversations about digital privacy focus on what happens when you are online — which websites you visit, which apps you use, which emails you open. The assumption, rarely stated but widely held, is that when you close the laptop and walk out the door, [...]
One Unhappy Employee Stands Between You and a Data Breach. When people think about data breaches, they imagine sophisticated hackers working from anonymous locations, exploiting complex technical vulnerabilities with advanced tools. That image is not wrong. But it accounts for only part of the picture. A significant and growing proportion of data breaches do not [...]
The Hook Is Already in the Water. Have You Seen It? Right now, as you read this, approximately 3.4 billion phishing emails are being sent. Every day. That is not a typo. Every 39 seconds, another wave of fraudulent messages goes out — to inboxes, to phones, to social media accounts — each one designed [...]
You Have Never Heard of the Companies That Know Everything About You. Most conversations about online privacy focus on the companies you know — Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple. These are the visible players. Their names are on the products you use. You have some awareness, however vague, that they collect your data. The companies that [...]
