10 Big Privacy Compromises You Can Easily Fix with MySudo
We live so much of our lives online and we leave so much of our personal data behind. This is the data trail or digital exhaust that can easily expose highly sensitive information about us, be caught in a data breach, or stolen and abused by criminals. Our data trail can betray our privacy and safety. Some common, everyday activities we do online compromise our […]
Use MySudo to Break the Very Long Chain of Data Amazon Collects About You
More and more consumers are questioning whether the convenience of personalized ads and experiences is worth losing the privacy of their personal data. Any company you engage with online has data about you. Big tech companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon have truckloads. Big tech companies are actually big data companies. Their business model is data exploitation. Let’s look at Amazon, for example. Amazon […]
Why do I Need MySudo?
MySudo stops businesses from gathering your data and trading it as currency in the thriving digital marketplace. Businesses are using your data to tailor ads directly to you and drive your dollars to their pockets. Even your bank can be in on it. MySudo also cuts data brokers off at the knees and finally returns control of your personal data to you. MySudo stops […]
Avoid the Privacy and Security Risks of Recycled Phone Numbers with MySudo
Researchers from Princeton have found significant privacy and security risks from recycled phone numbers available through two major US mobile carriers, T-Mobile and Verizon. A recycled phone number is simply a disconnected number that’s been reassigned to a new subscriber. Recycling numbers is a regulated industry practice for maintaining the availability of 10-digit numbers. Since the Federal Communications […]
Peloton Leak Points to Another Perfect Use for MySudo: At-Home Fitness Apps
MySudo use cases are limited only by your imagination. Some of them are obvious, like shopping, travel, and online dating. Others are less obvious, like house hunting, teaching and even foster parenting (how cool is that?). Peloton’s recent API bug pointed us to another perfect use for MySudo: at-home fitness apps. The Peloton API vulnerability meant the age, gender, city, weight, workout statistics and date of birth […]
You Don’t Need Guest Checkouts When You Shop With MySudo
Do you use the guest checkout option when you buy online because you’re worried about giving out your personal data? A new UK study by Empathy.co found 22 percent (roughly 1 in 4) of 4,000 British shoppers surveyed use guest checkouts because they don’t trust retailers with their personal data and want more control. A March 2020 US survey […]
Google’s New Safety Labels On Android Apps Are NOT a Privacy Move
If you’re excited about Google’s plans to introduce a “safety section” in the Google Play store to help you understand how Android apps, including Google’s own, use the personal data they collect about you, then hold up a minute. We are joining other critics in saying Google’s move isn’t a privacy move so much as a security move. And as such it is missing a key aspect of privacy: what the companies behind the apps are doing with our personal data andhow they share it with other parties. We believe […]
Apple’s ATT Proves US Consumers Don’t Want To Be Tracked For Ads
Have you seen the headlines? Only about 5% of US consumers want apps to track them across the internet for targeted advertising. That means about 95% of US consumers are giving a big thumbs down to cross-app tracking with Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature. Since you’re reading this blog on the site of MySudo, the world’s only all-in-one privacy solution, we’re guessing you’re in the 5% camp, right? You can watch […]
MySudo For Foster Parents
MySudo is a great privacy tool for foster parents. As a foster parent you play many roles, communicate with many different people and have many responsibilities and worries. One thing you should not have to worry about is keeping your personal information private and secure. With MySudo you can email, text, and talk privately and […]
The Privacy Pitfalls of Personalized Advertising
You know the drill: you search a product or topic and within seconds every web site you load and your social media feeds are full of ads for those items. It’s creepy and convenient, right? Unsurprisingly, personalized advertising — and now even hyper–personalized advertising (think retail sites that already know your clothing size and color preferences, for example) — have some significant privacy pitfalls. Personalization relies on invasive surveillance of your personal data, taken […]
MySudo’s Group Video Calling
Have you tried the new group video calling capability in MySudo? You can host a group video call between you and up to four other MySudo users at the same time. You’ll find group video calls in both iOS and Android versions of MySudo. Group video in MySudo works just like it would in Zoom, FaceTime or Skype. In the MySudo app, you simply: Tap the ‘Phone’ icon. Select ‘New group call’ at the top of the screen. […]
Why MySudo Is Essential To Me As a Foster Parent
Being a foster parent is an enormous responsibility. As a foster parent, you accept other people’s children into your home and look after them so that their parents can have the opportunity to fix things in their lives and eventually look after their children again. Seasame Street summed it up best when it described foster parents as “for now” parents. Communication with the biological family is important When we first started foster […]
Beware Text Message Routing and SIM Swapping
It’s quick, stealthy and goes unnoticed for long enough to do devastating damage. It’s called text message routing and it’s the sinister cousin of SIM swapping. SIM swapping or SIM hijacking is switching control of a mobile from one user to another either by porting the target phone number to another SIM, or swapping out one SIM for another. Usually, the criminal bribes or tricks a mobile company employee into making the […]
Buy a New Home with MySudo
Are you in the market for a new home? When you sign up on real-estate sites and apps to view listings, you could be giving away a lot of personal information to people you don’t know, to services who may sell your information, or companies that may spam you.Using MySudo is a safe way to […]
10 Tips for Keeping Kids Safe Online
Just as adults are spending more time online, so are children and young people. Now more than ever given COVID-19, they’re online to connect with friends, learn and be entertained. And just as it is for adults, sharing personal information online can be risky for kids. Since kids can’t always see the consequence of their actions, it’s important that parents, caregivers and […]