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Privacy

Your TV Sold Your Super Bowl Watch Party to Strangers

A whole lot of us are about to watch hours upon hours of live television. And none of us will be alone when we do it. From the Super Bowl to the Winter Olympics plus everything else we stream, audio and video, it all generates profile data which our services Read more

By Dan, 3 weeksFebruary 8, 2026 ago
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AI

Answer 7 Questions to Cut Through The AI Cacophony

Google’s enabled you to turn on its Gemini AI in every service to search across your ibox, calendar, files, etc. Seems like a good idea to some, but the privacy concerns should not be ignored. Claude is on everyone’s minds and in all the headlines for its incredible Code and Read more

By Dan, 1 monthJanuary 18, 2026 ago
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Online Safety

Spam Season Is Here: Real-World Lessons for Smashing Online Pests

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

By Dan, 8 monthsJuly 20, 2025 ago
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AI

Gemini Didn’t Cite a Single Source. Is This Normal?

Many people, including me, have written much lately about Google search. Briefly, they feel Google no longer wants to connect a user to a website other than Google. Through its use of AI Overviews to provide a narrative answer on the search results page, queries can often be satisfied without Read more

By Dan, 8 monthsJune 29, 2025 ago
Online Safety

5 Red Flags: Why You Should Pass on Google Password Manager

Years ago, I managed a campaign for a state house candidate. We’ve stayed in touch, and I was talking with him recently about my first password manager post. When I finished my harrangue about how too many people don’t use a password manager and, based on a 2024 study, only Read more

By Dan, 1 yearJanuary 6, 2025 ago
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