Alphabet, Google's parent company, announced it was purchasing Fitbit for over $2 billion a few days back. This a huge win for Alphabet and Fitbit, but not for us, the consumer. It is thanks to a shriking number of large corporations that consumers are left with little choice in the form of mobile phones, search and browsers. And thanks to these same companies we will also be left with a lesser number of choices in this consumer space, the wearable trackers. If you look at the data, you'll...

Today, there are more ways to keep our data safe and private than ever before. From password managers, to multi-factor authentication, to encryption everywhere, to bio-metrics authentication, to VPNs, to encrypted DNS. And yet, as the ways to keep your data safe increase or become more easily accessible, so do the ways in which we more freely give that very data away. Though voice assistants are nothing new, their popularity has grown exponentially in the past couple of years. It makes sense. As the world becomes ever more...