Online Privacy: Best Practices and Opting Out

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The start of the year is when I review my online privacy practices and identify steps to improve cybersecurity of my accounts and online habits.

Which is good timing: January is when dozens of articles and news stories are published about privacy and how to avoid scams as well as information about annual Data Privacy Week events.

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What I Learned About Wikipedia and Psylla frodobagginsi

Small insect with transparent brown spotted wings on what appears to be a yellow flower petal.

One of my favorite stories I read this week was a post by Mike Dickison, a zoologist and active Wikipedian from New Zealand who helps with the weekly radio broadcast Critter of the Week (100,000 listeners!).

Dickison posted on Mastodon about a recent radio episode featuring Psylla frodobagginsi, an insect known as the hobbit kōwhai psyllid.

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