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And stick around to hear how AI can future proof your business. I'm willing to bet that there's someone in your life who you call when you have a

tech problem and not the have you tried turning it on and off again kind of problem?

But the more complex ones, the ones like,

could my baby monitor get hacked?

Or who is my smart doorbell giving information to.

For a lot of people, that person is Jeffrey Fowler.

He's a tech columnist for the Washington Post, part of a group of people who write under

the rubric help desk.

And you know, like the Avengers, we all have different skills and capabilities and

specialties.

What I love to do is actually investigate things, see the ways in which the hidden ways often that technology isn't necessarily

working on our behalf and then point out those problems, tell people how to how to get around them,

and maybe sometimes call for lawmakers and others to do better. It's his own particular set of skills.

A Liam Neeson for our digital trails, if you will.

I know, I'm mixing movie metaphors, but you get it.

Right now, as the holidays approach, even the most cautious of us might be throwing

more money and data around the web than usual.

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