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Is Your Toaster Spying on You? A Senior’s Guide to the Risks of IoT Devices
Imagine coming home to find your smart lock won’t open. A notification on your phone explains, ‘Account suspended due to unusual activity.’ Yep, you’re locked out of your own house because of a server glitch or worse, a hacker. Welcome…
Big Tech’s Latest Privacy Grab Just Hit Your Living Room
Got an Amazon Echo? Or maybe you’ve just been thinking about getting one? Well, brace yourself—because Amazon just pulled a fast one. And if you care even a little bit about your privacy, you’re not going to like what’s coming…
Watch These Scammers Get What They Deserve (and Learn How to Avoid the Trap)
There’s something deeply satisfying about watching a scammer get caught red-handed—especially when the trap they set backfires spectacularly. That’s exactly what happens in this jaw-dropping video, where a tech-savvy investigator infiltrates a massive Amazon scam call center… and then utterly…
How to Tell If Your Android Phone Is Hacked, and How to Take It Back
By Chris Clark, founder of Senior Tech Cafe Here’s how to tell if your phone is hacked: look for changes you didn’t make, such as apps you didn’t install, messages you didn’t send, settings that moved on their own, or…
Why You Need a Guest WiFi Network For Your Home
Picture this: you got suckered into hosting the neighborhood association’s annual meeting. You’re knee-deep in folding chairs, snack trays, and awkward small talk when someone pipes up, “Hey, what’s the WiFi password?” Before you know it, half the room is…
“Delete My DNA, Please”: A Senior’s Guide to Taking Your Genetic Data Offline (Before It’s Sold to the Highest Bidder)
Back in the good old days, if you wanted to know about your ancestry, you asked your Uncle Larry at Thanksgiving. Ideally, right after he’d had two glasses of wine and was feeling chatty. Sure, some of the details were…
Why You Should Turn On Fall Detection on Your Smartwatch
Picture this: You’re carrying a stack of laundry, weaving around the house like a circus juggler. Suddenly, gravity wins. You’re down. You’re dazed. Your phone? Out of reach. Now what? If you’re wearing a smartwatch, this is where fall detection…
Sharenting: 7 Reasons Not to Post Your Grandkids’ Photos (Even the Cute Ones)
By Chris Clark, founder of Senior Tech Cafe Sharenting means posting photos and details about your kids online, and grandparents do it too. Every picture of a grandchild you post adds to a public record they didn’t choose, and it…
This Scam Email Almost Tricked Me – Here’s How I Avoided Disaster
Scam emails are everywhere these days. They’re like cockroaches—sneaky, persistent, and almost impossible to get rid of. I usually spot them a mile away, but recently, one almost got me. And that’s saying something because I write a newsletter warning…
How to Redact a Document so the Secrets Actually Stay Secret
By Chris Clark, founder of Senior Tech Cafe Here’s how to redact a document in one sentence: permanently delete the sensitive text rather than covering it, using a real redaction tool like Adobe Acrobat Pro or the one in Mac…
