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How to protect your Instagram account and personal photos from prying eyes.

Don’t use the service? Delete your account. We explain which accounts are dangerous to leave dormant — and why.

Ten tips to make your private digital life really private.

The tools that can help preserve your online privacy.

When you’re ready to leave the privacy fever dream that is Facebook, make sure you have everything before you lock the door on your way out.

Here’s how to delete or temporarily disable your Instagram account and back up your photos if you want to take a break from the social media service.

Ready to delete your Twitter account? Here’s how. But you’d better back up your tweets first.

Your online privacy does not depend solely on you. We’ll tell you what your loved ones can give away. (Spoiler: It’s absolutely anything, even DNA.)

Protecting privacy online can be good for our mental health. Two reasons: it makes more time for offline socializing and keeps distracting ads at bay.

Fake airline giveaways won’t win you a ticket, but they might steal your data.

People post photos of their tickets online. Why shouldn’t they? Instagram alone contains thousands of images showing concert, airplane, and even lottery tickets. If everyone does it, why shouldn’t you?

Facebook’s settings are a moving target. Over the past few years, the company has changed various settings several times, adding, moving, even removing options. Now it’s really easy to get

A recent survey of 4,831 active social network users, conducted by Kaspersky Lab in 12 countries, reveals that an overwhelming majority (78%) of respondents considered quitting their social networks —

So, you created a Facebook account, probably more than a few years ago. And maybe you even set it up well, checking through all of the available privacy and security

Do you like privacy? Well, let me introduce you to a new player in the encrypted messaging game: Secret Conversations. It comes from a messaging service many are already using, Facebook

Security experts and media pundits warn people to avoid posting pictures of their tickets online. Many people follow this rule, but not everyone. Time and time again and again, and again, we see photos of

Last week Facebook posted a video of its solar-powered Aquila drone’s inaugural flight. The aircraft’s design is of flying wing type, with a wingspan close to that of Boeing 737, covered with solar panels.

In the first months of 2016 a number of European countries have stated that Facebook is behaving irresponsible when it comes to users’ privacy. Facebook disagrees. In the beginning of

Experience shows that even Internet old-timers fail to protect themselves from targeted hacking. As our everyday life is becoming more and more connected to the Internet and other networks, online

Over the past few weeks, we’ve discussed a few areas where you should brush up on your personal privacy settings for both Facebook and Google. Chances are you read it and said, “man

Today, we will continue on with our mythbusting Fact or Fiction series with a tale surrounding a unique feature believed to be tied to ATM machines around the world. “If