Tips to Protect Your Online Privacy

Tips to Protect Your Online Privacy
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- There was a time where people can still have a secret. However, it ended when the technology came in and all aspects of modern life turn out to be online.

Currently, community events starting from the basics such as shopping, chatting, traveling and so forth are already done online and all of which were recorded and stored by the service and the company's different.

The service and the company also has a pretty heavy responsibility to maintain the privacy of customer data and other stakeholders. But is still many people who consider privacy is not too important. Given that most of our communication today is done online, or at least, through electronic devices, of course, everybody wants their personal data to be maintained and protected and at the same time keep communicating securely online.

Therefore, we all need to know how to protect this valuable data. This not only applies to large organizations, but for every individual who uses a device that is connected to the Internet.

The following provides some tips for you to better protect your personal data:

➤ Routine checks on your Facebook account security settings, as well as to any other social networks you use. It's important to secure your primary e-mail, especially those linked to banking services and other important sites. If you want to log on various dating sites or services in question, you should make and use the e-mail address of a second (or even third or fourth).

➤ Be careful when you upload a scan and photos online, especially the identity card, ticket and billing documents. Is a bad idea to share information about your where about and online itinerary.

➤ Edna Criminals can use this information to find out, when your house is empty and committing robbery, or steal your personal data, such as banking credentials.

➤ Do not use an open WiFi network. It may look safe, but you cannot know for sure. To create a similar network, Edna criminals only need a laptop and a WiFi adapter. They really did it to intercept login and password from the user.

➤ Avoid passwords that cannot be relied upon. If you are using a combination of poor, consisting of letters only then you are not protected at all. Additionally, if you do not want to waste time remembering your password, then you can use special applications, such as Password Manager.

➤ Consider also the privacy of your children. Cyberbullying is not a joke and have a lot of children around the world who are victims and suffer from it.

➤ Ad product that you do not want to be over the screen. Do you realize that many of these ads add tracking functionality web browsing you do? In addition, it also eliminates tracking your privacy.

➤ Shop online using your data to adjust their ads to suit your preferences. They track your online activities so that it can be successful (of course, all these processes are automated). But, if you do not want your data is in the hands of these online stores, then you can use Private Browsing.

➤ When you install the software for free, you will be offered to install a variety of extras such as plugins, toolbar and extensions. And if you click "Next" without reading the text in the window installation, you automatically install the entire package of both applications are required and unnecessary. Applications that are not required by, for example, can change the home page or search settings.

Those are some tips that you can use, start to fix your privacy from now.