Living Tech
September 6th, 2018
Parents’ No. 1 goal is to keep their kids safe. Relatively simple to do when it comes to sharp objects and matches; trickier when we’re talking about digital dangers and risks. As your kids rely on smartphones and PCs for more and more of their education and entertainment, they make themselves vulnerable to countless online threats. A good VPN can help you keep them safe while they browse.
First, what is it? A virtual private network,…
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September 6th, 2018
We’re generally familiar with HTTP, an abbreviation for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, which is the typical way data is transferred over the Internet between site owners and site visitors. It describes the (hopefully) quick process of how visitors will see a whole bunch of specific images, text, links and other formatting as one, organized page.
If someone were to figure out a way to intercept this flow of data, they’d get everything, which is…
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September 6th, 2018
Professor Zeynep Tufekci has been talking to the tech world about the dangers of data collection since 2012. Six years later, everybody else is finally starting to listen. She has received a lot more attention since the news broke about Facebook and Google’s data collection in Spring of 2018. The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interview with her (behind a paywall). And on Vox, she recommends three books on how…
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September 6th, 2018
Have you ever checked the cookies on your computer or looked at the history on your web browser? This information is part of your “digital footprint,” and it is a data-fueled overview of how your family interacts across various digital platforms. This includes web-browsing, online-purchasing, details of how long your teen spends on gaming, chats or instant messages from work. Do you truly understand how this digital footprint is gathered — and how you can limit it?
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June 11th, 2018
Baratunde Thurston guides you through the maze of data which Facebook and Google collect about you. He shows you what he did to protect himself and his family. Following his steps, you can improve your privacy and limit who takes your data. While this article is…
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