Reporting on the small print and what it costs.
Technology·8 items
One household worked a data breach notice from the first phone call to the final claim form, and found that the useful answers came from people nobody thinks to call.
Technology··Callum Fitzgerald❧One Gulf Coast household assumed sync was backup, tested it in October, and learned how much state law decided about the outcome.
Technology··Callum Fitzgerald❧How backup practice arrived at its current shape, why copying is not the same as restoring, and which permissions a first-timer needs before January's device handover.
Technology··Bernard Okafor❧A family in Arvada lost one email account and spent three weeks rebuilding access, guided by a carrier associate, a fraud analyst and a consultant billing by the hour.
Technology··Callum Fitzgerald❧One family lost a phone in October and spent a week getting back into their own accounts. What the recovery path required in 2015, and what it requires now.
Technology··Callum Fitzgerald❧One household lost its authenticator app in a holiday trade-in, and spent three weeks proving who it was. The rules that decided the outcome, and the hour that prevents a repeat.
Technology··Callum Fitzgerald❧A working account inventory, recovery codes kept offline, and the state-by-state rules that decide who may open an account when you cannot.
Technology··Ximena Arredondo❧Most people read a breach notification for the one line about Social Security numbers. The dates, the vendor name and the retention question do more to shape what follows.
Technology··Bernard Okafor❧