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...

In the article Looking for a Job?   Beware of this Privacy Risk , you learned how looking for work could lead to a breach in your priva...

As we all know, the rate of unemployment all over the US is staggering.   Many of these unemployed people are without jobs through no f...

It’s part of my job to search the Internet for subjects that have to do with Internet privacy.   In the past couple of months, I’ve s...

Have you ever donated old clothes, books, furniture or other items to a Salvation Army or Goodwill store?   Well, one donator to Good...

As if we don’t have enough to worry about, now we need to start thinking about being spied on while we do our grocery shopping.   Foo...

New York State Senator Chuck Schumer recently issued a warning to all smart TV owners:   If your TV is equipped with a camera and can c...

By now, we all know that when we shop over the Internet, we’re being tracked.   But, did you know that when you shop in the stores, yo...

Using the Freedom of Information Act, the Journal News, the leading newspaper in Westchester County, NY, requested the records for pi...

What do you do with your old e-mails?   Do you just let them sit in the “Read Mail” folder, or do you permanently delete them?   If you...

Do you realize how much information is gathered from your smartphone?   This is something most people use every day, but not just to ...

I spend a lot of time on the Internet researching popular sites and I notice a very disturbing trend:   parents have given their childr...