This week, we’re looking at the privacy settings that actually matter — the ones that determine who can find your child, message them, track them, tag them, or see more than they should.
Keeping Kids Safe Online (Without Losing Your Mind) Part 2
Google: More Than a Search Box (A Beginner’s Guide to the Giant Running Your Digital Life)
What is Google really? We'll go deep to explain how the tech giant is involved in every part of your life.
The Everyday Person’s Guide to Email
You've Been Using Email for Years… But Do You Actually Know How It Works?
25 Sneaky Ways Companies Are Tracking You (And Selling Your Secrets)
Ever feel like companies know a little too much about you? Like, you Google "best pizza near me" once, and suddenly every ad is screaming about pepperoni deals? Yeah, that’s not a coincidence. Businesses have turned data tracking into an art form, and they’re collecting your info in more ways than you’d ever expect. From loyalty cards to shopping apps, even your free health insurance perks—your data is their goldmine.
5 Shocking Ways Companies Snoop on Your Information (and Make You the Product)
Ever get the feeling that companies know a little too much about you? Like, you mention needing new running shoes in an email, and suddenly every ad on your phone is for sneakers? Well, you’re not imagining things. Businesses are like digital detectives, constantly collecting your data in ways that might surprise (and maybe even creep) you out. Here are five sneaky ways they get their hands on your info—and no, it’s not just about those cookies you blindly accept on every website.
You’ve Got Questions – I’ve Got Answers
"One key item for me is your offer to help us find/locate where to control many of the AI and tracking apps we encounter. For example, I have a weather app that won’t display the weather for my area unless I give them round-the-clock access to my location. Yet, the weather info for my area is available if I search for my location. Typically, I don’t want to let any app access my phone or PC; however, I don’t know if I am educated on all the trackers following me. (I hope that makes sense) Call me naive, though I don’t intend to be. I have considered numerous times to close my FB account. However, it’s my only access to 3 key activity clubs and many relatives. What to do. And as soon as I figure out a tiny thing on FB, they change it. Ex: I have to search for activities I’m interested in and I don’t know how to make them top of my feed. Instead, I get garbage shoved at me like ‘you might like to be friends with . . . ” No! I don’t. And even though I have followed their directions on how to turn off certain people who jam FB with their notifications, I can’t stop receiving up to 20 per day. I long ago ‘unfollowed’ them. People and groups I want to hear from I have to search for. My fault because I use FB infrequently. I like the email notifications. However, I can’t figure out how to control whose FB email notifications I receive.
Windows Activity History
Learn how to control Activity History.
What does Microsoft know about you?
What does Microsoft know about you? I'll show you how to find all the data they're keeping on you.
Untag yourself in spam
Have you been tagged in spam videos? Here's how to fix it.
Should I be worried?
Should you be worried about who's watching you?