Credit cards are a notoriously insecure means of payment and credit card fraud is one of the most common types of identity theft in the US. We give out our credit card number constantly without even thinking about it, and with it our name and home address.

In this digital realm there are lots of scammers who will try to pick your digital pockets, so you need to learn to be street smart. Here are some BIG scams to watch out for, which I have either seen personally or have had close friends fall victim to.

More and more people are waking up to why financial privacy is so important, and just how invasive the traditional banking system is.

Did you know that when you share a photo online, you might be revealing the exact location of your home? Or that when you print a document, there are hidden dots on the page that reveal the exact printer the document came from?

Search engines completely revolutionized how we access the web. If you want to find a website, you can type in keywords and search engines will show you a list of websites that match your criteria.

Now that you’ve gotten into crypto, what do you DO with your crypto?

Many people are building their savings in cryptocurrencies that can’t be debased, in preparation for potential future economic upheaval.

Snowden once tweeted:

“I wouldn’t use WiFi at home, because global maps of every wireless access point’s unique ID—including yours—are free and constantly updated. I would use ethernet; yes, ethernet on a phone.”

Apple plans to modify iPhones to constantly scan for contraband.

Social media dominates our lives, and we willingly spend hours of our time engaging on these platforms FOR FREE. But what if we could actually make money doing this?

Seeing as we do a huge amount of our communicating via messaging services these days, it’s important to know what information we giving out, and to whom.

There are many messaging apps that bill themselves as being “private”, but which ones actually are?

The ability to share short messages instantly to someone’s phone has transformed the way we communicate. There are countless options: Sms, iMessage, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, Signal... but how PRIVATE are these services?

If you’re new to crypto it can be really confusing to try to understand what all these different cryptocurrencies do.

Our lives and day-to-day activities have largely moved onto our digital devices.

Brian Brooks is the former Acting Comptroller of the Currency, and current CEO of Binance.US, so he has a particularly insightful perspective that bridges the worlds of traditional finance and crypto.

E-mail remains an essential backbone of internet communication, with over 4 billion users worldwide. But is it private?