It’s that time of year again – time to see which popular gifts make my privacy/security Naughty and Nice lists! You want to make sure that when you’re giving gifts to your loved ones that you’re not also giving gifts to hackers and data miners!

I’ll also start to catch you up on several of the news stories from the past few weeks including Google’s access to private medical info of tens of millions of people, a researcher finding 146 different Android bugs coming right out of the box, more creepy updates on the Ring Doorbell, and a very welcome federal court ruling about your rights at the US border.