One piece a week on digital self-defence. Sourced, and with nothing to sell.
Your TV can recognise what is on screen, even from a console on HDMI. Every brand names the feature differently. Here is what to look for and what switching it off does.
An app you connected once keeps its own key to your account, and a new password rarely stops it. Here is where each provider keeps the list, and what removing an app does.
A phone photo can carry the exact spot it was taken. Email and file sharing send it along. Here is where to switch it off on iPhone, Samsung and Pixel.
Hashed is better than plain text, but it is not the same as safe. The algorithm sets the guessing speed, most notices never name it, and a reused password makes the question moot.
A copied session cookie keeps working after you pick a new password. Ending those sessions is a separate button, and every platform hides it somewhere else.
One tick tells every site not to sell or share your data. Twelve US states now oblige businesses to act on it, and browsers have to build it in by January 2027.