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Smart TV Privacy Issues: It’s Watching You

Smart TV Privacy Issues: It’s Watching You

Your smart TV is smarter than you are. While you are watching it, or playing games on it, it is watching you, and feeding that information to advertisers and other data mining companies. The smart TV privacy issue is similar to the recent Facebook scandal about user information being shared without our knowledge to a
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Scam Alert: Phony Phone Calls

Scam Alert: Phony Phone Calls

Scam Alert: The newest plague on our time and privacy is phony phone calls from fake caller ID numbers. When your phone rings and it looks like a local call from a friend or neighbor, you may be more likely to answer. Scammers count on this, and are now actively faking caller ID numbers that
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Avoiding Identity Theft on Vacation

Avoiding Identity Theft on Vacation

SCAM ALERT Vacations are not the time to relax your personal safety, including taking internet security precautions. Everyday, it seems, we hear about hacking, identity theft or some other invasion of our digital privacy. Here’s how to protect your online life from cyber criminals while you are away from home for the holidays, or any
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How to Avoid Identity Theft While on Vacation

How to Avoid Identity Theft While on Vacation

SCAM ALERT Everyday, it seems, we hear about hacking, identity theft or some other invasion of our digital privacy.  Here’s how to protect your online life from cyber criminals on the road, because vacations are not the time to relax your personal safety, including taking internet security precautions. Before You Go Patch Up.  Check all
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Scam Alert: Chipotle Credit Card Breach

Scam Alert: Chipotle Credit Card Breach

If you used a credit card or debit card to purchase anything recently at Chipotle Mexican Grill, you could be a victim of credit card fraud or identity theft. Chipotle is working with authorities to identify customers at risk. At issue is what Chipotle calls “malware” designed to steal information from customer credit cards and
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Keeping your digital life safe on vacation

Keeping your digital life safe on vacation

Everyday, it seems, we hear about hacking, identity theft or some other invasion of our digital privacy.  Here’s how to protect your online life from cyber criminals on the road, because vacations are not the time to relax your personal safety, which includes taking internet security precautions. Before You Go Patch Up.  Check all your
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Target credit card hacking gets worse

Target credit card hacking gets worse

Scam alert: Even if you weren’t one of the 70 million or more Target customers affected by the headline-making data breach, it’s a good reminder to protect yourself from identity theft. As ecoXplorer reported earlier, everybody – whether or not you are a Target customer – is entitled to one free credit report a year.
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Protect your privacy:  cellphone warning

Protect your privacy: cellphone warning

Identity theft is a growing problem, and a top reason I do not publish my cellphone number or put anything intensely personal, like private family photos, on any public social media outlet such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest, where anything I post is exclusively work related (I communicate privately with my family by telephone
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