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Category: Privacy

Privacy is a hot topic now, and more and more people are becoming interested in it. This interest grew with the increased flow of news about the issue. Every day there’s reports of privacy violations, data breaches, and other creepy stuff that companies are doing with our data.
Last year the data’s value surpassed the one of oil, so companies are desperate to get their ways on our data. Some companies are expert in retaining or information or being creative enough to help others in achieving that.
Here you can find articles, tips, and tricks that will keep you informed. My intention is not to make you paranoid, so take the information and form your conclusions. I’ll provide my view of the issue and how you can fix it or, at least, mitigate it.
Some articles may become deprecated if some new information surfaces. If or when that happens I’ll update the information and sources, provide more context, or if necessary, remove the articles.

Privacy: Why we ignore Password Best Practices
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Privacy: Why we ignore Password Best Practices

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesApril 14, 2020June 2, 20200

Nowadays, passwords are an easy target for hackers. There’s a precise collision between what are the best practices of password management and reality. If we …

Two-Factor Authentication – Enable but be smart about it
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Two-Factor Authentication – Enable but be smart about it

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesJanuary 3, 2020January 3, 20200

If you’re not aware of what two-factor authentication (also known as multi-factor authentication) is, here is the super-simplified explanation. It’s is an extra layer of security …

Beware of notification previews on your phone
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Beware of notification previews on your phone

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesAugust 17, 2019September 18, 20190

We get a lot of information pushed at us daily. I won’t even debate here the number of notifications that some people have enabled. It …

Government-backed attackers
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Government-backed attackers

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesAugust 10, 2019August 20, 20190

Earlier this week, my friend Miguel Velosa Câmara showed me the following tweet: Government-backed attackers may be trying to steal my Google password. This is …

How to gain control your privacy while browsing
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How to gain control your privacy while browsing

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesAugust 6, 2019October 10, 20190

Ok, I’ll start by admitting that the title looks a little bit clickbait but hear me out. How many times you’re using a computer, especially …

Why Superhuman is under fire over a privacy violation?
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Why Superhuman is under fire over a privacy violation?

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesAugust 3, 2019August 20, 20190

For all of us who were not aware of what Superhuman is, let’s investigate together and understand why there’s a huge controversy around the privacy …

Apple contractors ‘regularly hear confidential details’ on Siri recordings
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Apple contractors ‘regularly hear confidential details’ on Siri recordings

Manuel Gomesby Manuel GomesAugust 1, 2019August 20, 20190

The Guardian published this news recently, and it was not good for Apple. Although Apple does not explicitly disclose it in its consumer-facing privacy documentation, …

Power Automate: How to parse a CSV file

August 3, 2020January 13, 2021
Power Automate: How to access Excel with a dynamic path

Power Automate: Access an Excel with a dynamic path

January 21, 2020September 8, 2020

Power Automate: Save multi-choice Microsoft Forms

February 11, 2020February 11, 2020

Power Automate: Find next business day

January 28, 2020January 21, 2020
Power Automate: Using flow as a Web Service

Power Automate: Power Automate as a Web Service

December 10, 2019June 2, 2020

Power Automate: substring Function

January 21, 2021January 21, 2021

Tools: Shortcuts

January 20, 2021January 20, 2021

Power Automate: What is a Scope?

January 19, 2021January 19, 2021

Microsoft Teams: Approvals and other cool features

January 18, 2021January 18, 2021

Podcast: Burn Your Passport

January 17, 2021January 17, 2021
Manuel Gomes - Power Automate: How to parse a CSV file

Hi James, Does your previous step "split(variables('EACH_ROW')[0],',')" returns an array? Can you please check if the number of columns matches…

Manuel Gomes - Power Automate: How to parse a CSV file

Hey! I think this comes from the source CSV file. Can you please paste here a dummy sample of your…

richardbottiglieri - Power Automate: How to parse a CSV file

Manuel, how do you avoid the "\r" being returned for the final entry in each row? If I have a…

James Schuldenfrei - Power Automate: How to parse a CSV file

Hi Manuel, Sorry not that bit - it's the bit 2 steps beneath that - can't seem to be able…

Manuel Gomes - Power Automate: Save multi-choice Microsoft Forms

No worries 😀

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