Turkey Balls and Mayonnaise: The Auto-Opt-In Diet Wrecking Your Digital Exhaust For years, users have treated their digital lives like a favorite restaurant, trusting the chef (the platform) to serve up only what they ordered. But lurking in the fine print of every app, device, and online service is an uninvited …
Privacy
How Does a Data Broker or Data Reseller Get Their Information?
Smoke Signal – Privacy You Can Taste I would much rather be smoking my favorite meats than getting smoked by privacy issues and my Digital Exhaust. So, when it comes to my family’s safety, I do not have time to joke and smoke. You can’t rush low and slow when it comes to cooking—same goes for how you approach the …
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How IoT Fuels the Digital Exhaust Ecosystem
I would much rather be smoking my favorite meats than getting smoked by privacy issues and my Digital Exhaust. So, when it comes to my family’s safety, I do not have time to joke and smoke. You cannot rush low and slow when it comes to cooking so I will take the same approach to some of the issues I want you to slow …
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Amazon, Google & Apple: Privacy Settings And Smart Speakers
I’d much rather be smoking my favorite meats than getting smoked by privacy issues and my Digital Exhaust. So, when it comes to my family’s safety, I don’t have time to joke and smoke. You can’t rush “low and slow” when it comes to BBQ—and the same goes for your privacy. So pull up a chair, let critical thought …
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How to Use App Privacy Report on iPhone and iPad
Bottom Line Up Front: Apple’s App Privacy Report—introduced in iOS 15.2 and enhanced in iOS 16 and 17—lets you audit how often apps access sensitive information (like location, photos, or microphone), what third-party domains they’re connecting to, and how much data is flowing silently behind the scenes. This is one of …
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Communication Safety In iPhone Screen Time Settings
Bottom Line Up Front:Apple continues to expand its Communication Safety features—designed to help protect children from inappropriate content such as explicit images in Messages—using on-device machine learning that preserves end-to-end privacy. This technology detects nudity in images and blurs them before display, …
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LinkedIn Public Profile: A Sneaky Reset You Need to Know About
Bottom Line Up Front: LinkedIn allows you to set limits on how much of your profile is visible to people both on and off the platform. But here’s the kicker—after some app updates, your visibility preferences may silently revert, exposing more of your Digital Exhaust than you intended. What I Noticed Back in late …
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Motion Detection On Your Amazon Echo Device
Bottom Line Up Front: Starting in late 2021, Amazon enabled ultrasound motion detection on 4th-generation Echo and Echo Dot speakers. These devices emit inaudible sound waves that bounce off nearby objects to determine if someone is present in the room. If you’ve activated Occupancy Routines, your device is likely …
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Your Digital Rights Resources
Your Privacy Is a Battleground — Here’s How to Win Your personal data is not just valuable, it is vulnerable. Every search, scroll, app install, and GPS ping creates a trail of digital exhaust. These are not just harmless bits of data. They are behavioral breadcrumbs that advertisers, brokers, and even threat actors …
Lawsuits For Data Harvesting
Another company endures lawsuits over data harvesting. Companies continue to find ways of gathering, studying and selling your data. What for? What's the end game? Now we have to contend with "Tracking Pixels" ... oh come on! Meta Lawsuit For Harvesting Financial Data Via Tracking Pixels Bottom Line Up Front: A …