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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Every day, all over the world, people are signing on to the Internet and their social media accounts.   Facebook alone has millions...

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

Within the last couple of weeks, 29 year old Edward Snowden has become famous.   He’s not an actor, or singer, or author; his “fame” ...

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...