Author: Rob Pegoraro, Special for USA TODAY

An update to Mozilla Firefox shipped last week enhances your tracking protection.

Netflix accounts don’t really offer the selling potential stolen Facebook accounts do, but they still tempt a subset of hackers.

Cable operators can beat the rates of the big four wireless carriers. But these offerings also come with gotchas of their own.

Like Apple’s Safari, Firefox’s tracking prevention stops ad networks from identifying your browser with cookies that follow you across the internet.

Facebook gets more heat as conference speakers take it to task for its vast influence and inability to address such persistent problems as fake users.

A phone number can mean much more when it’s stored on Facebook’s servers– even if you only provided it to help secure your account.

Economically priced smartphones on display at the MWC Barcelona did not make big news, but they should be a good news for customers.

New TVs with Apple’s streaming video feature AirPlay built-in should make the connection easier. But that might not be so for pay-TV subscribers.

One of the bigger developments in TV tech at CES, 8K televisions, shows the downside of focusing on what you can build instead of what you should.