In an interview, Mr. Larson walked us through some of the basic steps he recommended. “You can be sure by looking at the code that they’re not doing anything weird with your data,” Mr. Larson said. Your phone may be the device that lives in your pocket, but Mr. Larson described the computer as the real gold mine for personal information. “I’ll be honest, I don’t use it very often,” Mr. Larson said. Mr. Larson said that if people were paranoid about Google, he would strongly encourage them to use DuckDuckGo, an alternative search engine.

Source: New York Times November 16, 2016 19:08 UTC