How to Disable Location on your Mobile Device

How to Disable Location on your Mobile Device

Android Phones and Devices: Go to Settings, then Permissions, then Location and turn it off. When an app asks for access to your location, you can choose to grant it or not. To disable geo-tagging of photos, open the camera and then click on the gear icon and set...
You are responsible for what you post, share, maybe even ‘like’

You are responsible for what you post, share, maybe even ‘like’

By Larry Magid In the words of Bernard Baruch, “Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.” He said that in 1950, but if he were alive today, he’d probably be saying it with even more urgency.   I see and hear false...
Dangers of electronic voting machines & internet voting

Dangers of electronic voting machines & internet voting

Listen to Larry Magid’s interview with Stanford University computer scientist Dr. David Dill Americans are divided over who we’re going to vote for this November but just about all of us want the elections to be fair and for the results to accurately...
Lock down your login

Lock down your login

The White House and the National Cyber Security Alliance have teamed up to promote a new STOP. THINK. CONNECT campaign called Lock Down Your Login. The goal, according to a statement, is “to encourage a move beyond usernames and passwords to a widespread...