Tate's Online Safety Substack

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If you’re an iPhone user, this iCloud setting is a must for your privacy and security!
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Border crossings are dangerous for everyone now, not just criminals and foreign intelligence agents -- learn how to protect yourself
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Don't leave your privacy and safety to chance, safeguard your information before you become a target.
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How a Spare Phone Number and Email Could Save Your Identity & Privacy (And It’s Shockingly Easy)
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Your Employer is Giving Your Salary Data to Equifax, and Equifax is Selling It.
A massive Equifax database you've never heard of is collecting and selling your sensitive employment and income history. Here are the exact steps to see…
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Push notifications: a subtle, but dangerous privacy exposure. Learn how to reduce your risk.
Push notifications aren't very private or secure. Their metadata can be used to de-anonymize you, and the content is exposed to Google, Apple and…
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Improve Your Privacy: How to Deprecate Your Google Account
Your old Google account is inexorably tied to your identity and contains vast amounts of private and sensitive data. Deprecate these accounts while…
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Push notifications: a subtle, but dangerous privacy exposure. Learn how to reduce your risk.
Push notifications aren't very private or secure. Their metadata can be used to de-anonymize you, and the content is exposed to Google, Apple and…
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Tate Jarrow
Improve Your Privacy: How to Deprecate Your Google Account
Your old Google account is inexorably tied to your identity and contains vast amounts of private and sensitive data. Deprecate these accounts while…
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Tate Jarrow
All Google users should do these 3 things to protect their privacy right now!
For most of us, avoiding Google products is really difficult, if not impossible. But that doesn't mean you have to sacrifice all your privacy. Do 3…
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Push notifications: a subtle, but dangerous privacy exposure. Learn how to reduce your risk.
Push notifications aren't very private or secure. Their metadata can be used to de-anonymize you, and the content is exposed to Google, Apple and…
 • 
Tate Jarrow
Improve Your Privacy: How to Deprecate Your Google Account
Your old Google account is inexorably tied to your identity and contains vast amounts of private and sensitive data. Deprecate these accounts while…
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Tate Jarrow
All Google users should do these 3 things to protect their privacy right now!
For most of us, avoiding Google products is really difficult, if not impossible. But that doesn't mean you have to sacrifice all your privacy. Do 3…
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Tate Jarrow
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Tate's Online Safety Substack
Tate's Online Safety Substack
I'm an expert in personal security, privacy, & identity (x-Army, x-USSS Agent, x-Google, current Product Executive and Entrepreneur). Protecting your privacy and security is more important now than ever. Every week I publish tips on how to do this.
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