CREDO Tip: Wasted – How You Can Help Stop Food Waste

Wasted: How you can help stop food waste What if you took nearly half the food you buy and threw it away? That’s what we do as a nation every year. Around 40% of the food we produce …

Tuesday Tip: Twitter Basics for New Users

If you’re not a Twitter user yourself, you may know it mainly as the platform Donald Trump relies on to attack his enemies and share his unhinged rants with the world. But if you try it yourself you …

Tuesday Tip: How to Update Phone Software and Become Harder and More Expensive to Hack

Not sure why you should update? Update your software for mobile phone security. “Keep your software updated!” is the closest thing we have to mobile phone security advice that will work for everyone. But the reasoning behind it …

Victory: Trump’s Interior Department drops plan to hike fees at national parks

Great news! Thanks to the more than 85,000 CREDO members who submitted public comments, Trump’s Interior Department backed off its proposal to drastically raise entrance fees at some of our country’s most iconic national parks. If these rate …

Tuesday Tip: How to Encrypt a Phone, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About a Stranger Accessing My Data

How to Protect Your Data by Encrypting Your Phone Losing your phone is the worst: you aren’t just out of a phone—you also have to worry about a stranger having access to all your photos, banking apps, messages, …

CREDO is Fighting Trump’s Dangerous Tax Scam

CREDO is Fighting Trump’s Dangerous Tax Scam Paying taxes is an American duty and important part of participating in civil society. Our taxes fund public education, Social Security and Medicare, infrastructure, and public safety. But this Tax Day, …

Tuesday Tip: How to Take Great Food Photos With Your Phone

How to take great food photos with your phone When you sit down to a nice meal, which do you pick up first, your fork or your phone? Join the club. We’re all snapping pictures of our plates …

Tuesday Tip: How to Change Your Facebook Settings After the Cambridge Analytica News

Tuesday Tip: How to Change Your Facebook Settings After the Cambridge Analytica News This is the first part of a special three part series on digital security by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  You shouldn’t have to do this. …

Download your March for Science posters here

Last year, more than 1 million people worldwide marched in support of science, an event that organizers called the “largest event for science advocacy in history.” This April 14, students, teachers, scientists, supporters and advocates will again gather …

Our favorite protest signs from the March for Our Lives

On March 24, more than 1 million students, teachers, parents and supporters across the country took to the streets to push for stronger gun control laws as part of the student-led March for Our Lives protests. In Washington …