Author: Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY

Here are six tips to beef up your digital security on the road or at your local coffee shop this summer

Newer smartphones from Apple and Samsung offer tools to enhance July 4th fireworks pics. Beyond Burst Mode, there’s also videos, Live photos and apps.

Former Google exec paid $90 million for exit, despite harassment complaints. Ex-wife’s divorce complaint is a stunner, even for Silicon Valley.

Local fire department shut Facebook mailing facility, which uses machines to sort mail & detect substances. Facebook has several buildings in area.

You can turn off some of the tracking, but then many Amazon features won’t work. And if you want to delete your Alexa recordings, you need the app.

We sum up our four-part privacy series with some thoughts on where the tech firms need to improve for the consumer.

Apple is less data hungry than Facebook, Google and Amazon and processes data on device instead of Cloud. But apps still track you on iPhone and iPad.

Facebook denies it monitors your conversations to serve you ads on your News Feed. So what does it really do? And why are there so many coincidences?

Search giant’s “Location History” is an opt-in feature, but Google prompts users to turn it on for better recommendations. In turn, they get followed.