What is GDPR and why should you care? It’s an EU Regulation (the General Data Protection Regulation) going live on 25 May 2018 with the goal of protecting the processing of personal data for socio-cultural or financial activities (source). You’ve likely been hearing about it a lot recently as the 25th is rapidly approaching and […]
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It’s amazing how quickly an environment can change. That can’t be denied. This post was planned weeks ago, but it’s taken on new urgency in recent days. No overly specific event has directly caused that, just a timeline of peaceful protests, to gag orders, mandating EPA scientific studies, data undergo review by political staff before […]
Info & Tech Literacy Series: Security & Privacy Basics – links
Yes, you know how to use the computer. Your three year old is showing you how to use the iPad. You successfully create presentation slides for seminars you give and your tween has a webpage she designed for a class. Your wife set up and secured your wifi network.. and unplugged the blinking VCR since […]
Seven Tips for Passwords
There are the best-practice gurus say you must use, then there is real life. In this post, I hope to provide some guidance so that you can decide what makes the most sense for you. Keep email and bank account passwords different and unique from other passwords. Do I really want my bank account, web-based […]