Info@wiperts.com Is Alexa Spying On Your Family? Could Alexa be spying on your family conversations and other activities? Multiple reports have been made about Alexa recording private conversations and sending that information back to Amazon and in some cases, to email addresses and phone numbers in the owner’s address book. Though Amazon has denied any…
Info@wiperts.com Is Your Smart TV Gathering Personal Data? Five years ago less than half the population owned a smart TV. Now, a large part of the country owns one. There’s been a big growth of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and other companies producing and selling their own TV shows and movies. Since these subscriptions are often…
Info@wiperts.com Why Does My Information Keep Getting Re-added Online? If you’ve done exhaustive browser searches of yourself and found that everything from your name to your address and salary information is being posted online you may have tried to delete information and remove your information from the internet. There are some things you can do…
Info@wiperts.com How Much Money Are Data Brokers Making From Our Information? People often wonder how much money data brokers are making from selling our information. The answer to how much big data is making is—billions. Unfortunately, many companies who purchase data from data brokers don’t realize that most of what they have compiled is totally…
Info@wiperts.com Who Are the Biggest Data Brokers? Some of the biggest data brokers are Lexis Nexis, Neilson, Experian, Equifax, and Acxiom. There are others, but these are the companies who have files on the largest number of people in the world. They go through the most drastic measures to get our personal information so they…
Info@wiperts.com Alternatives to Social Media Social media has become the main focus of our lives, but there are alternatives to social media. There’s been a trend lately towards putting down devices and having more direct interaction. There’s even a day dedicated to it. March 1st and 2nd is the National Day of Unplugging. This growing…
Info@wiperts.com People Have Actually Gone Off Social Media Completely It may be hard to believe in our digitally saturated age that people have actually gone off social media completely. When we spend upwards of two hours a day online, (for some people this time is up to four or five hours per day), social media…
Info@wiperts.com Reducing Your Data Footprint It’s initially really not easy, but there are multiple ways of reducing your data footprint. Like quitting any habit—and make no mistake, social media does quickly become a habit— it takes a concentrated effort to lower use and focus your attention on other things. According to multiple studies and observations,…
Info@wiperts.com Why Posting Your Vacation Plans Online is a Bad Idea For many people, the best part of going on vacation is bragging about it. Some people love to post every exciting moment to various social media sites like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat or Tumbler. Sharing vacation fun with followers and getting likes makes the…
Info@wiperts.com Is it Legal to Use an Alias on Social Media? Not only is it legal to use an alias on social media, it has been done by many people for many years. Twitter recently deleted thousands of fake accounts, even though it may have bought down their subscriber numbers temporarily. This was in an…