Category: privacy

Manage Your Privacy with Smart Speakers

Your smart speaker is listening to you. Don’t just take my word for it as there have been hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines, and on websites, detailing how they are listening to, and even recording everyday conversations in your home, and how they’ve…

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How to Delete your Microsoft, Google, Apple or Meta Account

Sometimes you just don’t want to use a service from a company any more. But just stopping using them is often not enough, as they’ll retain all of the information they’ve been keeping on you. This could present data privacy or even security issues in…

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Manage Your Privacy with Microsoft, Google, Meta and Apple

Our privacy and the privacy and security of our personal data is more important than ever. It’s not just that it’s being sold to advertising companies to sell us goods and services we likely don’t want or need, but it’s increasingly being used by political…

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Secure Your Messaging Privacy with Teams

If you chat a lot online with friends and family you’re probably using an app such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram or WeChat. There can be privacy issues to contend with when using these services however that you might not have considered. Telegram makes strong…

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Setting and Securing Your Internet Privacy in Edge

While Windows 11 allows you to control your personal data privacy when using your PC, there are additional settings in the Microsoft Edge web browser you will almost certainly want to look at. You access these within Edge by clicking the menu (Three Dots) icon…

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Setting and Securing Your Privacy in Windows 11

We’re all becoming much more aware of our online privacy, and how major corporations have turned us into the product. Fortunately Windows 11 makes it really easy to manage your privacy. In Settings, navigate to Privacy & security and then you will see a General button in the Windows…

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Manage Privacy and Tracking in Edge in Windows 10

One of the advantages of the Edge web browser from Microsoft is that protecting your privacy is baked in, and it’s possible to block all online tracking by advertisers, and third-party companies and organisations that collect and use your data. To set your privacy, click…

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Quickly Secure your PC’s Desktop in Windows 10

We all work on sensitive and private documents and websites at times, and doing this in privacy when people can be walking around you can be a difficult thing. Fortunately there are some quick and easy ways to secure your desktop to prevent other people…

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Protect your Privacy with a Virtual Private Network (VPN) in Windows 10

Where viruses were the tech villains of the early 21st century, and ransomware because the buzz word of the 2010’s, the biggest villain of the current day is the most insidious of them all… privacy. We’re all becoming much more aware of our personal privacy…

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Privacy is Paramount in Windows 10

Privacy is everything these days. We’re almost all worrying about what companies have what information about us and if they’re storing it safely. Microsoft got attacked from all sides when they first released Windows 10 because they included extensive privacy controls. This didn’t mean that…

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