On August 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Education announced a final extension of the student loan payment pause until January 31, 2022.
The pause includes the following relief measures for eligible loans:
A su…
Identity theft is one of the largest and most common forms of cybercrime. When it comes to sensitive personal information, a child’s Social Security number, date of birth, name, and address is some of the most desired information by crimina…
You’ve probably heard of a firewall. You’ve maybe heard of a VPN. But what’s the difference?
Since we’re living in a time when most people are ultra-conscious of germs and what they’re touching, maybe the easiest way to explain the d…
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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…
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…
School is back in session. But for how long? The Delta variant has caused a significant rise in cases and has reversed the steady decline of Covid-19 infections since January. The variant is more contagious, causes more severe illnesses, an…
We’ve all heard its origin story. Facebook, originally TheFacebook, was started in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and some of his Harvard classmates as a social site for the school alone. It was a big hit, of course, and suddenly other campuses wa…
When it comes to online privacy, one Big Tech company has taken the lead. I’ll give you a hint: Their name is a fruit and their founder really liked black turtlenecks.