Stop Tracking Kids: Protect Their Privacy on the Web
While people worry a lot about kids and their digital access, the most critical aspect to me — and the most likely to cause an eventual problem for a child — is the degree to which information can be...
View ArticleRetailers Track Adults by Monitoring Device Wifi
We most often worry about advertisers tracking our children online but sometimes forget to think about how much we adults are followed around digitally. Check out the Washington Post article, Privacy...
View ArticleIs Privacy Protected When a Student Learns Online?
If you think that the digital world may be getting it together on the privacy front, at least when it comes to children, think again. A disturbing article, Data Mining Your Children, published in...
View ArticleHow Much Privacy Do I Have? DuckDuckGo Gives More
Although I believed that I had taken significant steps to maintain a modicum of privacy in my 21st Century digital life, I was wrong. I am less than halfway through Bruce Schneier’s book, Data and...
View ArticleHow I Try to Maintain Privacy (or at Least Some) in My Digital World
Today a person’s personal information is a commodity, and privacy is a struggle to maintain. I want to stop (or at least slow down) Facebook, Google and all their advertisers (not to mention Cambridge...
View ArticleDo You Really Understand How Much You Are Tracked in Your Web Activities?
When we use Chrome, Google’s tracking cookies follow us everywhere, and the video below perfectly illustrates how these trackers operate in our digital lives. It was produced by Washington Post...
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