Knowledge is power. That's why I do my best to show you some of the best ways to protect yourself from creeps, hackers and nosey companies out to get all your info. In my latest column, I've got five tech pro tips to lock down your privacy and security.

If you’re traveling and lose your wallet, it’ll be a lot smoother getting home if you have pictures of your essential documents. 

Take my advice — here are nine photos you should always have on your phone. Include your license, passport and health insurance card at a minimum. 

The easiest way to snap and store important documents on an iPhone is to use the handy document scanner built into Apple’s Notes app. 

• Open the Notes app. Create a new note by clicking the icon that looks like a square with a pen located at the bottom right of the screen. 
• Tap the camera icon at the bottom of your new note and select Scan Documents. 

On an Android, snap some photos and mark them as favorites in your picture gallery or use the scan feature in Google Drive. 

• Open the Google Drive app. Tap the plus button in the bottom right corner.
• Tap Scan and allow access to your camera if you have not already. Follow the on-screen prompts to take and save your photos.

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Every Google account comes with 15GB of free storage. That seems like a fair amount, but users have recently seen available space mysteriously shrink. We'll explain what's happening and what might be behind shrinking storage space.

Losing everything on your devices is heartbreaking. Think about all you would miss.

Don’t leave it to chance! Take the time to back them up the right way. My pick is IDrive. It’s safe, fast and easy. You can back up all your devices — iPhone, Android, Mac, PC — to one account and access your stuff from anywhere.

When you use my name, Kim, at checkout, you get 90% off your first year. What a deal.

You can connect third-party apps and services to your Microsoft account for easy logins and information syncing. While convenient, you may build many connections over the years, which could constitute a security risk. Here's how to manage apps connected to your Microsoft account and remove the ones you no longer need.

The days of easy-to-spot con jobs like the Nigerian prince scam are long gone. Nowadays, cybercriminals have sophisticated tools at their disposal to rip us off in the blink of an eye. If you find yourself an unfortunate victim of one of these dastardly scams, don't give up hope. Take these critical steps ASAP to minimize the damage.

Storage systems have become digital in recent years. What if I told you the same technology that made VHS tapes possible might be the future of storage? Engineers at IBM are working on making that old approach more capable than a microchip. But how?