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It’s no secret that Meta’s Facebook collects, uses, and profits from abundant user data. This data enables Facebook to provide each person with a customized user experience, but it simultaneously influences users to purchase products and services and to behave in other subconscious ways. Facebook also tracks users beyond what they do on Facebook. Despite […]
Google gets our data from our online browsing and usage of its apps and products such as Nest, Waze, Google Maps, YouTube and Fitbit. This abundant and diverse information teaches Google to know us better than we know ourselves! As terrifying as this is, it’s not all bad. Our data enables Google to provide us […]
In 2015, I noticed the Venmo financial activity of a friend posting on Facebook but he had no idea this was happening. After 10 minutes of searching in 2021, reporters located President Biden’s Venmo account. They observed that President Biden had sent money to his grandchildren. They were able to map out a social web […]
Are you certain your privacy settings are doing what you think they should be doing for you? Have you checked all your Facebook privacy settings lately? Many Facebook users are unaware that what they are reading, watching or listening to may be posting to Facebook for others to see. In other words, they probably haven’t […]
There’s been some panic about Facebook privacy, but don’t despair! It’s easy to make certain your privacy settings are set just the way you want them. Click on hyperlinks along the way for additional info or to verify or change your settings directly 1. How to Enable HTTPS Secure browsing Hackers are getting into everything […]
Privacy has become a valuable and elusive commodity. On the one hand, our private information is made available by others whether we like it or not. On the other hand, it’s our own fault as we overshare online. People seem to assume privacy is a lost cause, but that is a mistake! There are many […]
By creating an Amazon account, searching, researching, and then shopping on Amazon, we voluntarily hand Amazon abundant data about ourselves. This data gives Amazon an intimate knowledge of us and also gives them the tools to keep us going back for more. Our browsing and shopping actions allow Amazon to provide us with the exceptional […]
If you’re a Facebook user, your pictures, bio, posts, and other activity make up a treasure trove of data about you. Consumers worried that their personal information is vulnerable, according to a recent report from Pew Research, listed hackers and criminals as their top online-security concern. “For many people, [the question isn’t] if you’ll get […]
An ongoing game or two of Words with Friends, an app on my Android phone, has been a simple and guilty pleasure that I’ve enjoyed regularly. After an annoying upgrade option kept popping up on my screen, I read the privacy policy to learn exactly what I’d be giving up in exchange for the improved version […]
When an alligator cartoon offering a Facebook Privacy Checkup popped up while I was using Facebook, I assumed it was fraudulent. Facebook hadn’t seemed concerned about making their privacy settings transparent before and with the unfamiliar alligator and no Facebook logo I was suspicious. Yet something about the offer made me look into it further […]
This is a very quick article (with lots of easy illustrations) to remind you that free apps often come with a tradeoff of privacy. Today I clicked on the video below because I figured it must be very good if over 15 million people had viewed it! Clicking on the video led to pop ups […]
There is no doubt there are aspects of privacy that are out of our control, but as discussed in the last post called Privacy we Cannot Control, there are solid options for reducing the impact of privacy invasion. Today’s post reminds us there are many ways to take control of our privacy – it’s not time […]
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