Protecting Your Privacy

New free way to protect your child's identity

Protecting your child's identity is about to get a whole lot easier and cheaper thanks to a new free service in the marketplace. Child identity theft is one of the worst forms of identity theft because it often goes unchecked and unnoticed for years. You might not have any idea ...

• 2:35 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Tips to protect your privacy online

How safe are you on the web? The June 2012 issue of Consumer Reports says you're more vulnerable than you think. Thirty million computers infected in just in a year with malware. Sixteen million households in which somebody suffered identity theft. More than 9 million times where someone had their ...

• 2:34 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, 2012

SurfEasy offers secure browsing on public wifi

Secure web browsing is a big problem when you're on unencrypted wifi. Thankfully, there's a new device that lets you lock down your data while you still enjoy free public wifi wherever you are. For $60, SurfEasy.com will sell you a unit that plugs into the USB port of your ...

• 1:48 p.m. Friday, April 27, 2012
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Mac users face virus attack

If you're a Mac user, you may think your computer is impervious to viruses. But that's no longer the case. For a long time, it was accepted as gospel that if you wanted to avoid viruses on your computer, you got a Mac instead of a PC. Now estimates suggest ...

• 1:12 p.m. Thursday, April 12, 2012
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Safeguard yourself against caller ID spoofing

Con artists, telemarketers and bill collectors are finding new ways to spoof caller IDs. USA Today reports that in just six months, the number of fraudulent calls people received have surged over 50% to over 1 million fraudulent calls. In one example, con artists can pop up the name of ...

• 1:02 p.m. Friday, March 30, 2012

Employers asking job applicants for their Facebook log-ins

More and more employers are snooping on job interviewees in a way that gives me the total creeps. People are going to job interviews and being told to hand over their Facebook log-in credentials. Then the employer signs in as if they're you and looks at your private messages and ...

• 1:57 p.m. Thursday, March 29, 2012
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Social media and smartphones make for a tame spring break

I've talked about how video is everywhere you go these days. Now our kids understand that too. I think we're at full immunity for my 23-year-old daughter over an incident that happened when she was 16. We were out of town and at that time MySpace was hot. So she ...

• 1:14 p.m. Thursday, March 22, 2012

Aerial drones pose threat to privacy

Better look out, you never know who's spying on you with a little camera flying above your yard! The San Francisco Chronicle  reports that a new law signed by President Obama opens the gate for aerial drones that could be equipped with high-definition cameras or other spying devices for use ...

• 2:00 p.m. Thursday, March 15, 2012
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New technology coming could thwart credit card account breach

America practically invented credit cards, yet we're the only place on Earth that does not use the secure world standard of smart chip technology in our cards. But that may be all about to change. A lack of proper card security means we have had ever-rising credit card fraud because ...

• 1:16 p.m. Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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Website ID's sites with worst privacy policies

Certain websites you visit daily are lax about keeping your personal info private. A new site identifies the worst culprits.

• 12:00 a.m. Monday, March 12, 2012