If you have stayed at one of Marriott’s Starwood hotels in the past few years, chances are you have been affected by a massive data breach that potentially exposed your personal data along with about 500 million other people. Your name, phone numbers, email addresses, passport number, date of birth, and potentially credit card numbers […]
Amazon and Google have both come out with wildly popular digital assistants that are loosely known as smart speakers. Amazons is called Alexa and Googles is called, well, Google. “Hey Alexa, would you say you are smarter than Google?” Apple’s digital assistant is Siri which can be found on all new Apple devices, including the HomePod, […]
Now, more than ever, I am being asked how to delete a Facebook account. It’s totally understandable given the massive amount of data that has been shared by and breached from the Facebook servers about our most personal information, including our political leanings, our buying behaviors, even the contents of our phone calls and text messages. Users are finally figuring out that their private information fuels Facebook’s profit model. Your data is Facebook’s inventory, to be traded and sold as they see fit. Deleting your Facebook account should be something that you spend a few minutes thinking about before you press the button. While you are doing a great deal to protect your privacy, there are consequences that you should think about.
