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Your car has been grading your driving and selling the report card
Your car may be logging how you drive and selling it to insurers, sometimes for pennies. What it costs you, how to opt out, and what Oregon just changed.
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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Your TV has a side hustle, and you're paying for it
Free apps on smart TVs can turn your set into a relay for someone else's web scraping. Using your connection and your IP. Here's how to tell, and how to stop it.
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Your photos know where you live
I handed an AI a photo with nothing in it, a blank wall and a few trees, no signs. It named the state. Then I gave it a window view with the location scrubbed out, and minutes later it had the exact building and floor.
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How a stranger on the bus found her secret Instagram
Instagram's People You May Know can connect an anonymous burner account to your real identity through synced contacts and shared networks. How to see what is linking your accounts.
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You can’t say bomb on an airplane
A Bluetooth speaker named BOMB turned a transatlantic flight around. What your phone and its accessories broadcast to everyone nearby, and how to rename them in a minute.
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Leaked Email
Your email address is in a data breach, probably several. What that actually means for you, how to check which leaks you are in, and the short list of steps that genuinely help.
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Meta dropped Instagram DM encryption. Why?
Meta turned off end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages, so new DMs are readable again. What changed, what happened to old conversations, and what to use instead.