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A collection of 45 issues

Is Your App Safe? A Simple Guide to Assessing Vulnerabilities

A friend forwards a headline about an app getting hacked and you have no idea whether it touches you. Four terms and a short set of questions that turn a scary-sounding score into a decision about your own phone.

Identity Unmasked: The Double-Edged Sword of Biometrics

A password can be changed after a breach. A fingerprint, an iris, a palm vein pattern cannot. That asymmetry is what makes biometrics the most convenient login you will ever use and the most permanent thing you can hand over.

Digital Privacy Laws in the United States: A Comprehensive Overview with Crosswalks

The US never wrote a GDPR. It wrote one law for children, one for banks, one for wiretaps, and one for terrorism — decades apart, each patching the last. A crosswalk of what the statutes cover and what falls between them.

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.

The Interplay of Four Layers of Attribution in the Digital Age

“Y'all ain't from around here, are ya?” is attribution — someone reads an attribute and draws a conclusion. The same process runs on everything you emit, across four layers that cross-check each other.

Digital Identity: Are you in control?

Building a picture of someone used to take an implant and a case officer. Now it takes a purchase order — and most of what gets bought was assembled from things people posted about themselves.

Privacy in Global Travel: Tracking and Data Collection across Various Domains

One international trip produces a biometric passport read, a face scan at the gate, an airline manifest entry, and a ride-share pickup log. Different owners, different retention periods, one traveler.

Digital Footprint

A record of the sites you opened, the mail you sent, and the devices in your pocket is enough to reconstruct where you were and what you cared about. Most of it accumulates with no deliberate act on your part.