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Who is behind your child's GPS watch?
Consumer Reports found kids GPS trackers that skip the second login step, and the cheapest watches run on shared platforms the buyer cannot name. Here is how to check the one on your child's wrist.
Privacy
Who is collecting your data, what they do with it, and the settings that give you some of it back.
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Can you stop AI companies from training on what you write?
The opt-out settings are real, they only work going forward, and they only bind companies that choose to honor them. What each one actually does, and the one place you have real power.
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Google is paying $68 million over Assistant recordings. Claims close 8/27.
The $18 to $56 estimate assumes almost nobody files. What the claim form actually asks for, which class needs a receipt, and why your Nest speaker is fine.
News
A colon cancer test company got breached. If you took Cologuard, expect a phone call.
Exact Sciences, the Abbott company behind the at-home Cologuard colon cancer test, was breached and 10.9 million email addresses are public. What to do before the notification letter arrives.
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Two people agreed to your location sharing. Three are in it.
You agreed with one person. A company is in it too, and what that company keeps depends on which app you picked.
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Your doctor wants to record the visit with AI. Here is what to ask before you say yes.
Your clinic will tell you the tool is HIPAA compliant. That doesn't actually mean much. Four questions to ask before you agree, and what to do if you would rather not.
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The school laptop is a work computer. Here's what it does and doesn't monitor.
Every adult knows how to behave on a work laptop. Your child was handed one at school and nobody explained the distinction. Here is what the school district can see, and what to check before you sign the packet.
News
Millions of cars carry a Southern California dealer alarm with a security flaw
Most of the 2.2 million affected cars were sold at Southern California dealerships, but resale carried several hundred thousand of them everywhere else. Two minutes tells you whether yours is one.
News
Google wants a video of your face. Skip it for now.
Google's new selfie sign-in is optional, stored on Google's servers, and easier to turn on than to undo. Five minutes on your recovery settings does more for you.
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What a Flock camera actually does
It photographs every car that passes, including yours. The argument your city council is having is about who gets to search the record.
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Shark fixed the vacuum flaw. Here's what yours knows about you.
A researcher pulled a live camera feed, a floor plan, and a Wi-Fi password off a Shark robot vacuum he didn't own. Shark hasn't fixed it. Here's what every robot vacuum collects, and what you can do about it.
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That sketchy letter from your hospital might be real
Rochester patients got a real breach notice with the wrong hospital name on it. Many threw it away.