Privacy Guide

Is Your Data Setting the Price You Pay?

The FTC has proposed enforcement rules on companies that use your personal data to guess what you are willing to pay. The inputs include inferred income and household composition.

Is Your Data Setting the Price You Pay?

The FTC has proposed enforcement rules on companies that use your personal data to guess what you are willing to pay. The inputs include inferred income and household composition.

How to Protect Your Privacy During a Divorce

Separating from someone who knows your passwords, your patterns, and your new address is a specific kind of privacy problem. Here is a practical order of operations.

How to Protect Your Privacy During a Divorce

Separating from someone who knows your passwords, your patterns, and your new address is a specific kind of privacy problem. Here is a practical order of operations.

How to Check Someone Before a First Date

Verifying a match before you meet is sensible, not paranoid. Here is how to do it properly, and how to make sure the same tools are not being used to...

How to Check Someone Before a First Date

Verifying a match before you meet is sensible, not paranoid. Here is how to do it properly, and how to make sure the same tools are not being used to...

Address Protection for Police, Judges, and Publ...

After a judge's son was murdered at their front door, New Jersey gave officials the right to demand their home address be taken offline. Here is how those laws work...

Address Protection for Police, Judges, and Publ...

After a judge's son was murdered at their front door, New Jersey gave officials the right to demand their home address be taken offline. Here is how those laws work...

How to Remove Mugshots and Arrest Records Online

One arrest can produce listings on ten sites, and some demand hundreds of dollars to take them down. In at least 18 states, charging you is illegal. Here is how...

How to Remove Mugshots and Arrest Records Online

One arrest can produce listings on ten sites, and some demand hundreds of dollars to take them down. In at least 18 states, charging you is illegal. Here is how...

How to Use Your State's Data Broker Registry

Six states now force data brokers to publicly register. Those lists are a free, underused tool for finding out who holds your information and exactly where to send a deletion...

How to Use Your State's Data Broker Registry

Six states now force data brokers to publicly register. Those lists are a free, underused tool for finding out who holds your information and exactly where to send a deletion...