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Seeing how much information Google stores is both interesting and scary. YouTube, Android, Chrome, Gmail, Search, and Maps are just a few examples of all the Google services we use in our digital lives, day-in and day-out. As users, it’s easy to lose control of the information we’ve given up that Google has access to. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to find out what Google knows about you — using the Google Dashboard service. Here you can see exactly what you’ve done in different Google services and what information is stored. Here’s how to do it: Go to www.google.com/dashboard.Sign in with t...

The first sign that something’s wrong is almost always the same. Friends and business contacts complain that they’re receiving mail with advertisements from you. Dozens of notifications from mailer daemons accumulate in your inbox, claiming that your mail cannot be delivered. Either the addresses of the recipients were misspelled or they did not exist. Or, perhaps, you received a message from your mail provider saying that someone has changed your personal data. Now your alarm bells should be ringing, as it’s possible that your mail account has been hacked. A Trojan virus that spied out the ac...

Staying safe online doesn’t mean having to learn coding or anything exotic. Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security recently published a brochure entitled “Using the internet safely” that contains ten helpful security tips that you should keep in mind while surfing the Internet to protect yourself from fraud and computer viruses. The basic information is handy indeed, but we’ve expanded on these tips with recommendations on specific tools and security settings you can use to stay safe online. Further reading: The best antivirus software for Windows PCs Always keep Windows, browsers a...