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Privacy examines the collection and sale of personal data: ad tracking, device fingerprinting, broker markets, location trading and lawful access requests. Legal analysis sits beside practical steps for limiting exposure. Aimed at privacy officers, and at readers who want fewer companies holding their information.

Where personal data goes and who profits: ad tracking, broker markets, government access requests, and the rules meant to limit each of them.

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How to turn on two-factor authentication for the accounts that matter most

Malik Johnson

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How to delete your data from 500+ data brokers with California's free DROP tool

Malik Johnson

California residents can now wipe their records from every registered data broker in one request. Here's who qualifies, exactly how to do it, and what still won't disappear.

Chart comparing encryption defaults across five messaging apps

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Private messaging apps compared: Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, and Threema

Malik Johnson

Signal locks the most doors by default, WhatsApp encrypts equally but feeds a bigger data machine, Telegram is only private when you opt in — here is the honest comparison.

Runner checking a fitness tracking app on a park path

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Health app privacy: why your fitness tracker isn't covered by HIPAA

Malik Johnson

HIPAA binds doctors and insurers — not the fitness, period-tracking, and meditation apps harvesting your most intimate data, which is why FTC enforcement, not health law, is where the action is.

Newsstand with many magazines symbolizing cross-site tracking

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Cookies and trackers explained: what actually follows you around the web

Malik Johnson

First-party cookies log you in; third-party cookies follow you site to site — and while the industry retires the oldest tracker, fingerprinting and cross-device identifiers keep the ad economy watching.