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Digital Legacies: Managing and Deleting the Online Accounts of a Deceased Loved One
Imagine you’ve just been named the executor of Uncle Bob’s estate. You’ve wrangled the physical stuff: you sold his 1998 Buick, you rehomed his overly aggressive parrot, and you even figured out what to do with his bizarre collection of…
Beyond Cookies: Understanding Website Trackers and How to Block Them
By Chris Clark, founder of Senior Tech Cafe Website trackers are small bits of code on web pages that record what you look at and report it to advertisers, which is why a pair of orthopedic shoes you browsed once…
What Does Incognito Mode Do? Less Than That Little Spy Icon Suggests
By Chris Clark, founder of Senior Tech Cafe Incognito mode stops your browser from saving your history, cookies and anything you type into forms on your own device once you close the window. That’s what Incognito mode does, and nearly…
Beyond Cookies: What is Browser Fingerprinting and How to Make Yourself Less Trackable Online
You bought a pair of orthopedic socks online once. Just once. Now, no matter where you go on the internet, those socks are following you. They pop up while you’re reading the news, while you’re checking the weather, and even…
The Digital Eraser: Exercising Your Right to Have Online Companies Delete Your Data
Picture this: It’s 2014. You’re trying to buy a highly specific, customized spatula for your nephew’s wedding from a website called Spatulas-R-Us. To complete the checkout, the site practically demands your life story. You type in your name, email address,…
Remove Info From Data Brokers: Free Opt-Out Steps
By Chris Clark, founder of Senior Tech Cafe Remove Info From Data Brokers: Free Opt-Out Steps Remove info from data brokers by finding the people-search profiles that publish your name, age, address, phone number and relatives, then using each site’s…
The Data Shadow: How to Find and Ask Data Brokers to Delete Your Information
Have you ever ordered a single pair of sensible walking shoes online, only to suddenly receive phone calls from people trying to sell you a walk-in bathtub, a reverse mortgage, and a timeshare in Florida? You didn’t tell anyone about…
The Digital Dust Bunnies: How to Delete Old Accounts & Data You No Longer Use
Imagine walking into your attic. There, nestled between the artificial Christmas tree and a box of VHS tapes you haven’t watched since 1998, is a blinking computer terminal holding your credit card number. You don’t remember putting it there. You…
Who’s Tracking You? Decoding Location Services on Your Phone & Tablet
Imagine you go to the grocery store to buy prunes. You haven’t told a single soul about this thrilling errand. Suddenly, your phone buzzes with a digital coupon for digestive yogurt. How did it know? Unless your smartphone is clairvoyant,…
Taming the Algorithms: How to Turn Off Personalized Ads on Google and Facebook
By Chris Clark, founder of Senior Tech Cafe Learning how to turn off personalized ads takes about ten minutes, and it’s the quickest way to stop Google and Facebook turning everything you do online into a sales pitch. You’re standing…
