Privacy
How to audit your app permissions in one sitting
Malik JohnsonApps accumulate permission grants for years — a 20-minute review of camera, microphone, contacts, and location access, plus dead-app removal, resets your exposure.
Privacy
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.
Privacy
Smart speaker privacy: the settings worth changing today
Malik JohnsonVoice assistants record by design — reviewing and deleting your voice history, disabling human review and ad personalization, and muting the mic in sensitive rooms shrink the footprint.
Privacy
Email aliasing explained: give every service its own address
Malik JohnsonEmail aliases let you hand each service a unique address that forwards to your real inbox — instantly showing who leaked your address and letting you silence the leak with one click.
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How to stop apps from tracking your location on iPhone and Android
Malik JohnsonBoth mobile platforms let you limit location access to while-using or never, review which apps hold precise background access, and turn off significant location history — here is the full walkthrough.
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What a VPN actually protects — and the five things it doesn't
Malik JohnsonA VPN hides your traffic from the local network and your ISP — it does not make you anonymous, stop tracking, or fix malware; knowing both lists is the whole purchase decision.