The internet attempts to give every user a personalized, custom experience with each element designed with their preferences, needs, and desires in mind. Today, we live in a personalized digital world that aims to understand each individual…
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Cybercriminals are expanding their “services” by offering to ban an Instagram user for the low, low price of $60. This was recently reported by Motherboard, whose research showed that anyone on Instagram can harass or censor anyone else. Th…
I started this year with a deceptively simple question: What does the internet know about me? I wanted to do a deep dive into the privacy policies and data collection practices of the digital products that I use the most, in order to figure…
Covid-19 didn’t go away when school started. On top of that, new variants are being tracked because this virus isn’t done mutating and hasn’t been eradicated. Students and families could be facing yet another season of distance learning fro…
“We have fallen victim to an internet-based crime that has defrauded our taxpayers of $2.3m,” reads an August 23 press release put out by the Town Administrator of Peterborough, New Hampshire. It continues, “We do not believe that the funds…
Hurricane Ida has left a path of destruction along the entire east coast of the United States. While the storm has passed, millions of Americans have been displaced by record-breaking rain, deadly flash flooding, and power outages amid a Co…
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced a ban on the stalkerware company SpyFone and ordered them to delete all of the data they had illegally harvested from victims. Additionally, they banned the company’s CEO, Scott Zucke…
Earlier this month, a hacker pointed out a security vulnerability in the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) political party’s election campaign app. The party responded by pressing charges against the hacker. The complaint has since be…
Ameena is a married woman with two boys, ages 8 and 10, living in California. She’s a Type A personality and her high end job in the biotech industry reflects that. But the past 18 months of working from home while managing her children and…