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In the New Economy, You Don’t Buy a Product: You Are...
How much would you pay to secure your personal information from data farmers and marketers -- and anyone that might be able to hack...
Should You Buy a Tablet for Your Kid?
There isn't a holiday season that goes by that most parents aren't treated to the seasonal joy of caroling neighbors and cajoling children. There's...
What We Can Learn From the Healthcare.gov Debacle
In a House committee hearing this week, several security experts agreed with committee Republicans that it would be better to shut down Healthcare.gov than...
4 Ways to Avoid Charity and Disaster Relief Scams
It is virtually impossible to see the devastation after Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines or last weekend's tornadoes in the Midwest, and not feel...
Why the Adobe Hack Scares Me — And Why It Should...
If you're one of those folks who believed that "it will never happen to me," when it comes to identity theft, the hack of...
New Identity Theft Victims: The Denver Broncos Cheerleaders
In this day and age, the question is no longer whether or not your identity will be stolen – it’s when it will get...
Baby Boomers Beware: Scammers Are After Your Parents’ Money
It's no great secret that I'm a big fan of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its crucial work to help improve our financial...
4 Simple Things to Do Every Year to Save Money
For many people, managing finances feels like an overwhelming task. Our lives are incredibly busy as it is, and folks in my line of...
What Your Search History Says About You (And How to Shut...
With this week's revelation that the NSA secretly hacked into the data centers that power Google and Yahoo users' emails and documents (allowing them...
Could Law Enforcement Leverage Facebook Data to Identify You?
Facebook's privacy policies have always been the subject of debate among its users -- especially when they change, as they did this month for...
Could Facebook’s New Privacy Rules Endanger Your Kids?
Not a week goes by without another story of an adult doing something colossally stupid on social media and paying the price. So why...
5 Ways That Being Internet-Free on a Plane Is Better for...
For the first time in a while, I found myself this week on a transcontinental flight without WiFi access or in-flight television. I generally...
The Biggest Victim of the Debt Ceiling Deal: Your Retirement Savings
The cat fights in Congress over the debt ceiling aren't just an inside-the-Beltway problem -- they're already a Wall Street problem, and they're becoming...
When Chicken Little Comes Home to Roost: Why Many Americans Aren’t...
With everyone from the Treasury Department to the International Monetary Fund to the World Bank to several of the country's top economists warning about...
3 Ways Regular Americans Will Be Hurt by a Debt Ceiling...
Many Americans this week may be asking themselves: Why should I care about the debt ceiling, or the -- barring Congressional action -- coming...
When It Comes to Technology, Sometimes It Makes Sense to Slow...
Everyone is in a hurry -- overbooked, overworked, and generally overwhelmed. With life churning forward at a pace that makes the "rat race" of...
The 5 Deadly Clicks: The Links You Should Never Touch
Here's a scary scenario. You're innocently surfing the Web, maybe on an unfamiliar site, not paying close attention. Suddenly your computer screen fills with...
7 Credit Mistakes That Could Wreck Your Retirement
Yes, just like clockwork it happened again this year: I got older. As of this week, the Beatles song, "When I'm Sixty-Four," went from...
7 Steps to Deal With HR Looking at Your Credit Report
Employers don't like surprises. They want to know everything there is to know about you, which is why you shouldn't be surprised to learn...
Politics Aside, Is Obamacare Secure?
It's the biggest change in health care in nearly half a century, and perhaps unsurprisingly it's already become a tool for scammers. Though open...