You get to decide what you will accept an unknowable number of times every day. Will you wait in line at the grocery store or will you use the self checkout? Will you stay in your lane or switch to the open one beside you? Should you accept seeing ads Read more
My lawn looks like it has rained every day for the last three months. I may have cut more weeds today than grass, and the fungi in the mulched flowerbeds are as abundant as the attacks in my messaging apps. In this spam season phishing surge, if you have a Read more
Because I found out a wellness app came with unacceptable data privacy gaps, I set out to make it easier for everyone to understand the risks and protect their data. In an earlier post, I described how I learned that all the information I shared with Noom – the meals Read more
Caveat tracker: user beware. Even a free wellness app can cost you a lot. “Free” doesn’t mean no strings attached. You may be paying for the app with your data because, for some services, every meal or weigh-in you track could be shared with the people who administer your health Read more
I met a friend for coffee a few months ago. They mentioned some of my earlier posts about online safety, then said something which has stuck with me like a poppyseed lodged in my gums: I don’t worry about my data. I just assume the bad guys have all my Read more