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...

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

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...

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

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...

Early in 2012, Facebook approached the founders of Instagram with a $1 billion deal to buy the fledgling Internet photo company.   In S...