How to actually do GDPR compliance without losing a week
GDPR compliance is the kind of topic where a lot of guides oversell the difficulty. The real work is not glamorous. Most of it is sitting down with a list and confirming…
Privacy & Security
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Five practical moves for setting up a custom email address
A custom email address is one of the cheapest credibility upgrades you can buy for a small business or solo operation. The catch is that most guides treat it like a five-minute…
Where to shop online when you do not want to feed Amazon
Amazon is the easy button for online shopping. One click and a package shows up two days later. The price for that convenience is a shopping cart that knows more about your…
The 10-minute security sweep I run on my 19 smart devices every year
The number that got me was nineteen. That is how many devices on my home network had a reachable port, a cloud account, or a Bluetooth radio at the end of last…
What your ISP can actually see about your browsing in 2026
The honest answer to whether your ISP can see what you do online is yes, more than most people expect, and the gap between what HTTPS protects and what the ISP still…
Google Authenticator was easy. I switched and now I feel safer
I used Google Authenticator for years because it was easy. It transferred between phones. It worked. But easy and secure are not the same thing. When I finally looked at what Google…
Android apps that do not treat your data like product
The Play Store is broken. I do not mean the app review process or the discoverability algorithm, although both are also broken. I mean the basic assumption that an Android phone is…
Mozilla is rebuilding its fellowship program in public
Mozilla (the nonprofit behind Firefox) is rethinking the program that has trained a decade of public-interest technologists, and the rewrite is happening in the open. The fellowship itself, with its 200-plus alumni…
What Europe’s tech sovereignty package actually does
The European Commission published its European Technological Sovereignty Package in mid-2026, and most of the English-language coverage I have read has either skipped the substance or framed it as a procurement tweak.…
Cloud document management: structure on top of your storage
Cloud document management is a system that adds structure and control to your cloud storage. The storage part is easy: any of the big three (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive) or a privacy-leaning…