Internet Privacy and Safety Blog

If you use Facebook, you started getting messages telling you that a new app, Messenger, was about to be launched.   For weeks these me...

One of the founders of Memoto, Martin Kaellstroem, lost both of his parents to cancer when he was a young adult.   When this happened, he w...

Spammers use them all the time, but have you ever heard of web bugs?  Sure, we all know what cookies are, but what about web bugs?  Well, th...

It’s common knowledge that most criminals aren’t the smartest people around.   Many of them are so proud of their crimes that they feel...

As if new parents didn’t have enough to worry about, now they have to worry about hackers taking over their baby monitors.   In Augus...

This article is a bit different from most of the Internet privacy articles in this blog, however, a particular news story prompted me t...

In 2012, Google began testing and demonstrating a new product that they call “Google Glass”.   Google Glass is a device that is a ver...