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Tips for Safer Back-To-School Shopping: Your Kids Tech Privacy Cheat Sheet

While you’re busy back-to-school prepping, perusing your kid's tech for privacy can be overwhelming. Here are our top tips to make it easy.

Your Driving Data for the Price of a Gumball: What We Learned From Two US Senators' Bonkers New Letter to the FTC

GM, Hyundai, and Honda admitted to selling your driving data to a data broker for pennies. Senators Wyden and Markey are telling the FTC.

How to Protect Your Privacy From ChatGPT and Other AI Chatbots

Do AI chatbots spook your privacy spidey sense? You’re not alone! Here’s how you can protect more of your privacy while using ChatGPT and other AI chatbots.

AT&T Had a Huge Data Breach: Here’s What You Need to Know

AT&T doesn't guarantee the safety of their customers' personal data (no company can!), but it's not just their customers that may be impacted by this breach.

Car Company CEOs Answer Tough Questions About Cars and Privacy… Kinda

It would be a stretch to say they “answered” US Senator Ed Markey’s tough questions. But we combed through them anyway to share what we learned.

Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy

Your money or your privacy? In 2024, most dating apps want both. And there’s still no guarantee your sensitive information will be kept safe.

Thanks to US Senator Markey, Car Brands Have to Answer to the FTC

From local news outlets, podcasts, and TV to... the FTC?! Citing our research, US Senator Markey calls for an investigation into cars and privacy.

Romantic AI Chatbots Don’t Have Your Privacy at Heart

Wowee! Relationship chatbots are terrible for your privacy in strange new ways while also being terrible for your privacy in regular old ways.

Our 2023 Nice List: We See You, Good-At-Privacy Connected Products!

These brands profit from the money you pay them for their products, instead of the data they take from you. Gee whiz! What’s the opposite of coal?

US Senator Markey Has Some Serious Questions for Car Companies

Like us, Senator Markey had a lot of questions (and some demands) after reading our research. And unlike our emails, we're pretty sure these will get answered.