Privacy basics
- Privacy basics
Maybe you’re tired of juggling multiple email accounts. Or perhaps you’re
concerned about how companies are angling for new ways to exploit your data for
profit.
Whatever the case, there are many reasons why you might delete your Yahoo
account for
Google Photos’ backup feature automatically backs up your photos on your Android
device. While automatic backups are convenient, there are good reasons you may
want to prevent Google from copying your pictures onto its servers. We’ll show
you how to
- Privacy basics
The password manager built into Edge, Microsoft’s proprietary browser, has
several significant limitations that make it a poor choice to use as your
everyday password manager. As a result, we’ve put together a small guide on how
to turn off the Edge
- Privacy basics
Digital files live on physical devices. When those devices get lost, stolen, or
hacked, you can lose all your data unless you’ve created backups on the cloud or
another device.
Data loss is surprisingly common, and sometimes it’s painful — you can l
- Privacy basics
Your online identity is hard to grasp: for some it’s the email address that you
use for all your accounts, while for others it’s their Facebook profile or even
a username on an online forum or multiplayer game world.
In this article we’ll give one p
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If you’re still using LastPass, you probably shouldn’t be. It has some serious
issues with security, the worst of which is when it suffered the worst data
breach in the history of password managers. To help you get away, we’ve put
together this guide
Most people in the digital age have dozens, if not hundreds, of passwords, and
keeping track of them is tiring, to say the least. If you’re suffering from
password fatigue, you’ll be happy to know there’s an easy fix.
The short answer is that you sh
- Privacy basics
Password managers are a great way to generate secure passwords, keep them in
encrypted storage together with your credit card details, and improve your
online security across the board. But you might be worried about keeping so much
sensitive data in
- Privacy basics
Google Drive is the world’s most popular cloud storage service by far, with over
3 billion people using Google Workspace (which includes Google Drive, Google
Calendar, Gmail, and more). But this ubiquity has recently caused concern
following several
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Most email addresses use the default domain provided by their email service. For
Proton Mail accounts, it’s proton.me. For Gmail, it’s gmail.com. These are
usually free and work just fine for most people.
But there are situations where it makes sens
- Privacy basics
Putting a password on your folders is a great way to protect sensitive files
while they’re on your system. It’s pretty easy to do regardless of your
operating system, and this article will take you through each step.
Note though, that password prote