Privacy | - Part 2

Is Your Online Dating Profile Safe? How to Protect Your Privacy

Modern day match-making is a money spinner. Picking up a date digitally is now as common as lactose-free milk alternatives — everyone is doing it. A core tenet of online dating is openness. Potential matches want to see the real you, open and truthful. The problem lies in just how open to be, and how… read more »

Browser Autofill Is a Privacy Risk: Here’s How to Turn It Off

Recently, a security researcher discovered that the Autofill function of most modern browsers can easily be compromised. We’ve discussed why you shouldn’t save personal info in your browser before, so this unfortunately isn’t a surprise. Viljami Kuosmanen, who discovered this vulnerability, created a simple test website to demonstrate that a browser will automatically fill every… read more »

5 Privacy Protecting Apps You Need to Use Right Now

On the internet, you can never be too safe. New threats keep coming up all the time, whether attacking your security or trying to mine your data. It only makes sense to do whatever you can to stay secure. And just as the internet takes, the internet also provides. Developers have made everything from extensions… read more »

Microsoft Eases Your Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

From the moment Microsoft launched Windows 10, the company has faced criticism over the privacy (ar lack of it) of Windows 10 users. Now, ahead of the release of the Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft is addressing those privacy concerns. Windows 10 collects a lot of information about you and what you do while you’re… read more »

Facebook’s Disturbing Friend Suggestions May Violate Your Privacy

There are lots of ways to find friends on Facebook, but the People You May Know tool is one of the most common. Whether you’re on your computer or your phone, People You May Know is never far away. By analyzing your social network as well as a few pieces of additional information, the feature always… read more »

Does “Do Not Track” Protect Your Privacy?

All of the big modern browsers offer a Do Not Track feature — you tick a box in the settings, and your browser lets every website you visit know that you don’t want to be tracked across the Internet. It seems like a great idea, but does it really protect your privacy? Do websites respect your… read more »

6 Logless VPNs That Take Your Privacy Seriously

VPNs are all the rage these days. Despite Netflix changing their terms of use to disavow customers using a VPN to access region locked content, more and more people are turning to VPN services to allow genuinely anonymous Internet browsing. In an age where every online movement is tracked and logged, it seems a highly logical… read more »

Boost Your iOS Privacy with These Settings and Tweaks

We all know that the government is collecting information from your phone, and that companies are too. Unfortunately, there’s not a whole lot you can do about most of it. However, you might be voluntarily giving away a lot more data than you realize, and there is something you can do about that. By tweaking the… read more »

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Privacy at Work

Do you have a boss who stands over your shoulder all day and an IT department that looks at your every move? Are there any kind of privacy rights that you have? Is it wrong for work to monitor everything you do online? The answer might surprise you… (Note, this mostly applies to workers in… read more »

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