Slinging your credit card information all over the web may be the norm when you’re online shopping, but playing fast and loose with those precious numbers is just begging for identity theft to happen. A new company dubbed Privacy.com thinks…

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Web users face an even greater threat to their privacy as large ISPs align themselves more closely with data brokers to track their customers, an advocacy group said. Several large ISPs have either formed partnerships with, or acquired, data tracking…

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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Jan 27 warned hotels and other entities
against blocking personal Wi-Fi access, or hot spots, saying it was illegal and could incur
heavy fines."The Enforcement Bureau has seen a disturbing trend in which hotels…Read more

Here's a look at what these consumers (or their family members) who are at high risk can do
to reduce their vulnerability and safeguard themselves against ID theft. 


1. Children. Without any existing credit, children offer a blank slate for…Read more

The terms of service, also known as the document you're supposed to read before signing
up for a site or platform, is a treasure trove of legal guidelines, rules and permissions that
few people really care about. But there are…Read more

Facebook has always been creepy. But now it's allowing you to be creepy, too! The site
started rolling out an "optional" new mobile feature Thursday called Nearby Friends, which alerts
you when your friends are nearby (and vice versa.) But…Read more

Consumers could save an estimated $2.5 billion each year if proposed "kill switch" technology
significantly reduced smartphone thefts nationwide, according to a new study. The analysis by
William Duckworth, a statistics professor at Creighton University, estimates that consumers
spend about…Read more