Shopping websites and phone apps — and a whole lot of others — are actually collecting a lot of data about you, and sharing it (or selling it!) to others. Much of it is information they don’t need for you to use their app or website. You probably gave them permission to do this, without realizing it! You need to …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 4.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreDigital Assistants can be anywhere, are getting to be everywhere, and can be turned on when nobody realizes it. Ordinary language mistaken for a “wake word” can mean your privacy has just disappeared. Here’s what to watch out for. [English Majors: I dangled that participle deliberately. So …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 9.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThere’s a new twist on the IRS online scam to watch out for, and here are some new ways to search the internet without giving away your personal information and having some Big Brother skew the results. Better Beware is Produced by Richard Fish, at Community Radio …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:21 — 26.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, Carrier Corp will lay off 300 of its Indianapolis furnace factory employees. Members of the activist organization Hoosier Action were in Washington D.C. and marched on Republican lawmakers offices, where they staged protests against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also called ‘Obamacare.’ …
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 3.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMore online worries: scammers have figured out how to impersonate your friends… and internet companies are giving away your information to the government.
Read More »Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 3.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe new credit cards have stopped one kind of ripoff, but now there are others. Identity Theft is ballooning, and here’s how to keep from being carried away financially.
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