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Apple wants to slap their watches on your children’s wrists. Let’s add some more anxiety into our children’s lives. Every phone call, every Siri command, every tap, every text, everything your child does with this tool will be data-tracked and kept on file with Apple. And after that, every ad your child sees on a […]

Using Instagram’s Remix feature makes your content fair game for anyone to use. Is that what you want? If you have a public account on Instagram, any of your posted videos or Reels are considered fair game to be remixed without permission. Important to note: The remix option in Settings is defaulted to ON (shame […]

Seeing is no longer believing. Welcome to the world of deepfakes. Video-editing software has advanced to the point that it’s no longer just the movie studios who can make the impossible seem real (think Luke Skywalker’s recent Mandalorian cameos). Made with equipment available to the general public, deepfakes can appear to the casual observer to […]

“Cut off a pinky…”–Listen to some of the fun background of Marco’s passion to starting Datacappy. And join Amber Daines of ‘The Politics of Everything’ podcast here while she discusses with Marco why protecting your privacy needs to be taken very, very seriously.

The extent to which the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has gone to gather information will shock you. Driver’s license data, utility records and facial recognition technology are all fair game in their efforts to manage detention and deportation. Read the entire article here.

Only a few years ago “Musk” was a bad perfume (and some would say it still is). It’s now almost impossible to list the innovations associated with the name “Musk”. But like the laundry list of other brands that have transformed from “good” too “bad”, Elon and his Twitter purchase risk a similar fate. Yet […]

Blockchain has become a household name and a pop-culture staple. And yet, for many, it’s still a mystery. In its simplest form, blockchain is a digital ledger. It keeps track of transactions and creates a permanent record of digital activity, leaving no dispute as to who owns something or to whom ownership has been transferred […]

Marco Bellin, CEO and founder of Datacappy, weighs in here on The American Innovation and Choice Online Act in MarketWatch’s latest feature on the bipartisan bill aimed at curtailing Big Tech’s massive power.