social networks

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.

The trendy Nimses social network has a ways to go in terms of security and privacy.

Research shows that people who share data digitally are more likely to suffer from data loss and have device issues.

One day I found out that someone was passing off my photos as their own. Here’s what I did.

What would you do to get more likes on a social network? Take our quiz and see if you’re hooked on likes.

It is surprisingly easy to hack airline reservations, obtain banking data and other private information, steal tickets, and rack up air miles.

Facebook has changed its privacy settings several times in the past few years, so we explain once again how to make your account more private.

More than 70% of active Internet users have considered quitting their social networks. What do they have to lose?

A study reveals that people are tired of social networks, but keep using them because they can’t break the ties.

Photo files typically contain additional data on shooting conditions, including a geotag. What happens to this data when the photo is published online?

Facebook regularly changes its security settings. Take a look: A useful new setting may have appeared since the last time you checked.