Chinese hacking??

At 76, I find this world with hacking, AI, scammers, conspiracy theorists, apps, social media and having to access most things on-line, a very strange place to live. I understand very little about the dark side of the web but I know it does not bode well for the future.

Aveline, if you haven't already done so, go into your browser and delete your cache. ( history).
Then switch off and reboot.

I believe that because of pre-installed software on Android devices, Google searches can lead to Chinese search engines.
There are many posts about this on the Google forum.

I had an update on my Samsung tablet on Saturday evening and it b*gg*ered it up. It took ages to get it working again.

Oh no! Aveline , my technical skills are legendary. I’m due to combine my broadband and mobile contract. Keep starting then walking away. I’d rather hoover than attempt it.
I’ll have a look at Google 😵‍💫

Chinese hackers have the details of millions of voters in the UK by hacking into the electoral registers.
They want to interfere in our voting system.

Whatever their intentions Chinese tech is everywhere, mobile phones, computers, CCTV, Cars, they are all connected online back to China so they “could” be monitoring everything we do.

Whether they interfere I have no idea but they could, giving so much information to a potential adversary is a bad idea.