Making sure that your personal information is safely and securely erased from devices that you are no longer using is a good thing. Here's a quick guide to securely wiping hard drives (HDDs), solid ...

What this means is that the deleted file is not fully gone and can still be recovered. It's only when the data is overwritten ...

There’s a trick to thoroughly wiping all your data before you junk your old external solid state drive—or even computer.

On an external drive, the delete key is more of a suggestion than a final verdict. Files that appear to vanish from a USB ...

Sign in to Facebook. Go to Settings & privacy > Settings > Apps and websites. (Apps and websites is on the left, but you'll need to scroll down a bit. It's nested under Your Activity.) Select Remove ...

The smartwatches and fitness trackers that we strap to our wrists are intended to log our activity in minute detail—but there might also be times when you’d rather records weren’t collected. Whether ...

Memory sticks are convenient tools for storing data on compact, easily transferable devices. After a time, you may wish to remove sensitive information from a memory stick -- perhaps data related to ...

OW Shredder is all about removing files from your hard drive without leaving traces behind. The only feature we would have liked it to have i to support batch processing, and that is a disappointment.

Apple’s Health app offers a one-stop solution for keeping track of different health-and-fitness related stats, all under one roof. Using the app, you can pretty much record different health stats like ...

When you browse sites on the Web, your browsing data is saved as temporary Internet files and cookies. Your browsing history is also saved in the browser's History ...

I use Google for so many things, from looking things up, handing my email and calendar, video chatting with my team, to peeking in on the Nest cam in my mother's living room. The company provides a ...

For now, 23andMe’s CEO Anne Wojcicki has said she’s not entertaining offers from third parties looking to buy the company, a 23andMe spokesperson told CR, and has “expressed her strong commitment to ...