This is interesting: “Justice Elena Kagan noted that President Donald Trump, every governor and every member of Congress has a Twitter account. “So this has become a crucially important channel of political communication,” Kagan said. “And a person couldn’t go onto those sites and find out what these members of our government are thinking or…
I absolutely think they can, and these are methods we should be looking at to get some control over data. At least, according to Mindseye, there are 5 things that we should be thinking about: Companies are drowning in data, whether it’s on laptops, smart phones, desktops, servers, or the cloud and it’s only getting…
I was just having a conversation with someone about this the other day. In the US, when your employer issues you a computer, or a smartphone, as part of your job, they own everything on that device. Storing your own information on it, makes that information accessible to your employer pretty much whenever they want…
Nothing is safe… Truthfully, I’m putting this right up there with ATM skimmers though. I don’t care how many warnings you put out, people are not going to stop plugging in to power in public places. It’s simply not feasible for many people to always avoid it. Much like ATM skimmers haven’t stopped people from…
Simply “resetting” a phone does not completely wipe your data from it.
There are some good tips in this article about protecting your privacy online, some of which might seem a bit extreme. I do, though, have one quarrel with the article that I’ve mentioned before. If you are just now concerned about online snooping because of the change in President, you simply haven’t been paying attention….