Storing sensitive files on a normal USB drive is like writing your diary on a sticky note and leaving it in a taxi. If someone gets the drive, they get the files with no hacking required.

'Privacy is impractical.' 'Concessions are necessary.' 'Be realistic.' These views about becoming mainstream. And they're wrong. Here's why limits on privacy are never a price worth paying for adoption, no matter how reasonable the argument sounds.

I just recently went to a website to set up a new account, and it wouldn't let me proceed without giving them a cell number.

Modern smartphones are some of the most locked down consumer devices that have ever existed.

Email is closer to a digital postcard than a sealed letter, and mainstream providers like Gmail read and analyze everything that's inside.

It's a new year, and a perfect time for fresh starts, especially when it comes to privacy.

You might think privacy is optional. Something you can worry about later. But right now there is a major war against privacy being waged.

Want to buy online without handing over all your personal details?

How long has it been since you rebooted your devices? Many people don't actually think to do this, because as long as everything is working, why spend the hassle turning everything off and on again?

They’re on street corners, utility poles, even garbage trucks... and they’re tracking everywhere you go.

Platforms have one overriding goal: to keep us online as long as possible. And they’ve learned that nothing hooks us like outrage. But here's something many people don't realize: privacy and surveillance have everything to do with it.

Are you using the App Store to manage apps on your Mac?
You may want to reconsider.

A huge portion of the digital world now requires mandatory ID checks.

You don’t need to disappear off the grid to stay private online. But you do need a strategy.

Why doesn’t your doctor’s office feel like a safe place anymore?

Your Smart TV is spying on you. It’s taking snapshots of everything you watch -- sometimes hundreds per second -- and quietly sending that data to third parties.

Your child already has a digital footprint—before they can even speak. But they didn’t create it. You did.

Apple is better than Microsoft and Google when it comes to privacy—but they still collect way too much of your data. If you want the strongest digital privacy, Linux is the gold standard.