Tag: 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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Manage Your Privacy with Microsoft, Google, Meta and Apple

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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Quickly Secure Your Windows 11 PC’s Desktop

Sometimes you need to lock your screen or minimize all your open windows.  This could be because you are using your laptop in a public location, at a coffee shop or on a train, and someone walks past as you are working on something sensitive,…

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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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Browse the Web Privately and Securely in Windows 10

Sometimes you want to browse the Internet without any record being kept of what you’ve been doing.  This could be because you’re setting up a new bank account, or because you’re shopping for a super-secret birthday or anniversary present.  Microsoft Edge makes it really easy…

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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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Introducing the Microsoft Edge Web Browser in Windows 10

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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