Monthly Archive: June 2019

Old, unused email accounts put your security and privacy at risk.

With a compromised account, someone can impersonate you, search for personal information, or try the same password on your other accounts. The more unmonitored (and forgotten) accounts you have out there, the more doors into your personal information there are for sketchy people to walk through. This is especially true if you created accounts years ago without good password hygiene.

So, take a few minutes to recall, locate, and delete email addresses you’re no longer using. Some accounts may be easy to remember, but to ensure you cover all the email services you’re connected to, try the following steps:

1. Google old usernames and email addresses.
2. Check Facebook, Google, and other apps for any connected accounts.
3. Search saved logins in Chrome (or your preferred browser or password manager).

Before you delete old accounts, check if there are any connected services or data files that you’ll lose access to. If you terminate your Yahoo account, for example, you’ll also lose your Flickr photos. If there’s anything you want to save, make sure you download it or move it to another storage service.

When you’ve got everything saved, follow these steps to delete email addresses from major service providers.

How to delete a Gmail account

You can get rid of one or more Gmail email addresses without deleting your entire Google user profile. Here’s how:

• Go to your Google account settings page (to make sure you’re logged into under the correct username, click the profile icon in the upper right corner).
• Select “Data and personalization” from the far-left menu.
• Scroll to “Download, delete, or make a plan for your data” and select “Delete a service or your account.”
• Click “Delete a service” on the next page.
• You’ll be asked to log into your Google account again to verify your account—from there, you can download any data you’ll need before selecting the Trash icon next to the service you want to delete.
• Enter another email address you’ll have access to in the dialog box and click “Send verification email.”
• Click the link in the verification email and follow the prompts to finalize the deletion process.

Multiple vaping companies were sent letters by federal regulators this week over posts by social media influencers that did not include necessary warnings about the vape products.

Many of us are familiar with the uniquely infuriating hell that is robocalls, and folks, I hate to say it, but the problem isn’t getting any better. A recently announced iPhone feature arriving with iOS 13, however, might help quiet some of those unknown callers by kicking them straight to voicemail. So far, I’m loving what I’m hearing.

Ridesharing giant Lyft is fighting to retain total control of the docked and dockless bike share market in San Francisco, the Verge reported  Friday, and has filed a lawsuit that its contract prohibits the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) from issuing permits to competitors.

Twenty years ago, Microsoft vastly improved how we all point and clickwith the introduction of its IntelliMouse Explorer that used a small camera to track movements instead of an easily dirtied rolling ball. Countless iterations were released over the past few decades, but Microsoft has finally revived the original design with its new Pro IntelliMouse—which even still comes with a USB cable.