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Privacy & Security

Smartphone with colorful display next to a watch on a textured surface.
Mar 12, 2020

Smartphones are more like computers than actual telephones. Unfortunately, thieves, hackers, and other bad actors know this and are always looking to make money off your personal data. Thankfully, you ...

Settings menu displaying options for Bluetooth, Cellular, Personal Hotspot, VPN, Notifications, and Sounds.
Mar 11, 2020

A virtual private network is a necessary part of your arsenal if you're insistent on surfing the web privately and securely on your iPhone. The App Store is littered with hundreds of different VPN ser ...

Smartphone screen displaying app information settings.
Mar 10, 2020

If you use Google Chrome on your computer, you've undoubtedly saved a ton of passwords since the browser always prompts you to. But Samsung uses their own password service on their phones by default, ...

Smartphone displaying storage usage statistics.
Mar 10, 2020

Thanks to backups, Signal conversations can span over multiple years and multiple phones. These archives can get rather large as you share photos, videos, and other files with friends. But between the ...

Privacy settings on a smartphone screen
Mar 10, 2020

Apple has seemingly always made it a priority to show how much it cares about user security and privacy — enough that it has a page dedicated to it, proclaiming that "privacy is a fundamental human ri ...

Password generation interface on a mobile device.
Mar 9, 2020

Using a strong password is critical to the security of your online accounts. However, according to Dashlane, US users hold an average of 130 different accounts. Memorizing strong passwords for that ma ...

Text conversation on a smartphone with a blurred natural background.
Mar 2, 2020

The bigger the group chat, the harder it is to follow. Messages start flying one after the other, and before you know it, you're hopelessly lost in the conversation. With most chat apps, there's nothi ...

Mobile device displaying a user interface with information about sharing pictures.
Feb 27, 2020

We're thinking more and more about our digital privacy these days. When we first started using smartphones, we'd download apps with reckless abandon, allowing permissions lists as long as novels in or ...

"Notification prompt to turn on WPA3 for network security on a mobile device."
Feb 27, 2020

Google recently released a new mesh router known as Nest Wifi. The updated and rebranded Google Wifi brought many improvements, such as faster processing power and an increased level of wireless secur ...

Security check screen displaying system signature and installed packages information.
Feb 27, 2020

With all the talk about privacy concerns recently, Google's name keeps coming up because they are a very data-driven company. As an Android user, they know basically everything about you based on your ...