Mock Location Apps for Android: A Deep Dive
Five Android apps that let you tell every other app on your phone you are somewhere else — for testing, for region locks, or simply to keep your real position out of somebody's log.
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Android "10" List
Ten things to change on a stock Android phone before you carry it anywhere. None of them take long, and the defaults were chosen for someone else's benefit — starting with everything under Location.
Firefox Privacy and Security Guide (2026)
Firefox 152 reorganised the privacy panel, and three recommendations in the old version of this guide are now wrong. One of them, disabling automatic updates, made readers less safe.
Android Auto vs. Android Automotive OS: A Comprehensive Comparison
Two products, one brand name, and a distinction most drivers never notice until they are shopping for a car. Working out which one is in the dashboard tells you whose software is running and what it is wired into.
Car Privacy: The Unseen Threat on Wheels
The car in your driveway runs more cameras, microphones, and sensors than anything else you own, with a privacy policy to match. Mozilla called cars the worst product category it has ever reviewed.
Chrome's Advanced Privacy Features: Introducing the Privacy Sandbox
The third-party cookie is being retired by the company that profits most from it. A short look at what Chrome proposes to put in its place, presented in Google's own framing.
Introducing the Passphrase Card: Your Personalized Password Security Solution
A wallet card that carries no passwords, only a block of random words. What you memorize is a coordinate; what you carry is useless to whoever picks it up.
VoIP Services for Personal Use: An Overview
A second phone number is the cheapest identity partition you can buy. Which provider you rent it from decides who holds the call logs, whether the audio is encrypted, and whether 911 reaches anyone.
SPAM CALLS BE GONE!
Registering takes five minutes and costs nothing, but it only binds callers who were already following the law. Scammers were never checking the list — here is what the registry actually buys you.
Navigating the Landscape of Data Brokers: Safeguarding Your Personal Information
You never signed a contract with a data broker, never used their product, and cannot read your own file. They still know your address history, your purchases, and who lives with you.