“Amazon and third parties (including advertising and tracking services) collect smart speaker interaction data. We find that Amazon processes voice data to infer user interests…

A kill switch is a security feature that protects your privacy. It ensures that you don’t connect to the internet thinking you’re protected by a…

A guest network is a separate WiFi network within your home or office network designed specifically for your guests or customers to use.  Although run…

Before WiFi, you had to connect your internet-capable device to a router via an Ethernet cable. The router then connected to a modem, which connected…

Every device that connects to a network does so through a network interface controller (NIC). Devices that can connect to multiple networks will have a…

F-Droid is an app store for Android that features only free and open-source software (FOSS). This makes it a welcome alternative to the privacy-invading Google…

Geoblocking is the practice of restricting or blocking internet content based on your geographic location. This usually means restricting content based on which country you…

In this article, we discuss DNS — what it is, how it works, and how it impacts online privacy and censorship. All devices that connect…

WireGuard® is a new VPN protocol used to secure the connection between your device and a VPN server.  Learn more about how VPNs work WireGuard…