Online Privacy
How to Do a Personal Privacy Checkup Before Fall Routines Kick In
The kids go back to school, work picks back up, and everyone’s calendar fills in again. It’s also the moment when a lot of digital habits from summer, the apps downloaded on vacation, the location sharing turned on for a road trip, the new social accounts made out of boredom, tend to stick around long […]
Why Reusing Passwords Is Riskier Than It Feels
Picture a password like a house key. Now picture handing a copy of that exact key to your bank, your email provider, your gym’s app, and a random online forum you signed up for once and forgot about. That’s what reusing a password actually looks like, even though it doesn’t feel that way when you’re […]
How to Check if an App Is Selling Your Location Data
That flashlight app probably doesn’t need to know where you’ve been all day. But there’s a decent chance it knows exactly that, and that somewhere, that detail is worth money to someone. Location data is one of the most valuable things your phone collects, and one of the least visible. You can’t see it leave […]
What a Password Manager Actually Does, and Why It’s Worth the Switch
Somewhere in your house there’s probably a sticky note, a phone Notes app, or a battered notebook with half your logins written down. Maybe it’s the same password with a “2” or a “!” tacked on the end, reused across a dozen sites because remembering thirty different ones sounds like a part-time job. You know […]
A Plain-Language Guide to Data Breach Notifications: What to Do When You Get One
An email shows up with a subject line like “Important Security Notice” and your stomach drops a little. You open it and find out a company you’ve done business with, maybe a retailer, a healthcare portal, or an app you barely remember signing up for, just told you your information was involved in a breach. […]