Leave the dogs at home or take ’em with you? This is the eternal question facing every dog owner. I’m going to try to help. Regular readers of my column know I’ve spent many years having travel adventures with my golden retrievers — first Lucky, now Rusty. Why travel with [Keep reading]
As President Donald Trump continues to Tweet things that strain credulity, the warning we’ve heard from sensible people is this: Who will believe the U.S. government when it has something important to say? It didn’t take long to test this theory. When the Department of Homeland Security announced it was [Keep reading]
This weekend brought a fresh reminder that you should always have some “burner” email address accounts handy for interactions with e-commerce Web sites. Shoppers at Saks Fifth Avenue who had asked the firm for notifications when sold-out items were available had their personal information exposed by the firm, I [Keep reading]
Wikileaks got everyone’s attention again this week, with dire headlines proclaiming the entire American government spook infrastructure had just been decimated by the secret-smashing site. Hold on to your hyperbole: there’s a lot more to this story. Julian Assange, true to form, has shared a little leaked data and promised [Keep reading]
Howard Schmidt had an incredible American life. He was cyberczar to two presidents – a Republican and a Democrat. Before that, he ran security at Microsoft, and later practically rescued eBay when it was turning into a cesspool of fraud. He was a soldier (Air Force, then the Army Reserves), [Keep reading]
Several major online job listing sites potentially discriminate against older job applicants because of age limitations built into their software, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan alleged on Thursday. Menus that let users create resumes and profiles prevent would-be applicants from entering years beyond a certain date, in some cases prohibiting [Keep reading]
A stunning number of Americans say they’ve been victimized by a digital crime, like credit card fraud (41 percent). But even more say they write their passwords down on a piece of paper (49 percent). In fact, Americans have a lot of bad digital habits. Some 41% say they have [Keep reading]
Before there was fake news, there was the “pseudo-event.” Fake news, the concept, is hardly new. Some argue that it dates back as far as the Golden Spike which completed American’s first transcontinental railroad, back in 1869. One could argue that the thing which finally unified America set the stage [Keep reading]
Instead of demanding that presidents produce their tax returns, maybe we need to be asking for their credit reports instead. After all, it’s not what a person has, or what a person earns, that creates a real conflict of interest. It’s what — or who — that person owes. Debt [Keep reading]
In December, I told you about the creepy coming “Internet of Toys” — and a hot new doll named My Friend Cayla that consumer groups warned could spy on your children. This week, Germany authorities banned the doll and warned parents not to allow it in their homes. “The Bundesnetzagentur has [Keep reading]
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