My son used a people search site to find an address I lived at over 25 years ago. We were both creeped out, and that started my wildly successful Opt-out Tuesday series. But guess what? These sites didn't like you removing your info, so they changed the method. Don't worry. We did all the work to find the new steps for you.

Google Maps makes it easy to get around, but you might not like seeing every single place you’ve been laid out on a map. Here’s how to check your location history: 

• When logged into your Google account on a computer, open maps.google.com.
• Click on the hamburger menu in the top left corner.
• When the full side menu is open, click on Your timeline. This will bring up a complete map of where you’ve been.
• Data of places you visited can also be recalled by opening the side menu, clicking on Your Places, then clicking Visited. 

Pro tip: You can keep certain trips out of your search history by switching on Incognito mode. Google Maps won’t keep your search history or update your location history to include this location. Here are the simple steps to enable it.

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Most home security systems are a pain to set up, a pain to use and budget for every month. Not SimpliSafe. It's Kim's home security pick, for good reason. You buy everything online, set it up yourself and monitor everything in an easy-to-use app. Don't just take our word for it. See what SimpliSafe customers have to say.

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.

Breakups are hard, even more so now that we have many more parts of life to untangle. From email to streaming to social media, I'll walk you through a simple way to say a digital goodbye to your ex so you can move on and maintain your privacy.

We all have too many online accounts to keep track of. It's tempting to hit "Sign in with Google" or "Sign in with Facebook," but you're giving away a lot more than you bargained for every time you do. I'll show you how to take back your privacy in just seconds.

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?