Topic: SECURITY - on December 3, 2011 at 12:20:00 PM CET
10 Ways to Protect Your Privacy Online
What’s your biggest fear? For some it’s being stuck in an elevator. Others (like me) are terrified of spiders. Lately it seems, though, that many people are most afraid of losing control of their privacy on the Internet. Anyone with a Facebook account has experienced some level of privacy violation, whether it was several years ago when Facebook sent user data to third-party sites for marketing, or recently when Facebook added a “ticker” into the design of the website that alerted your friends of your activity in real time. Other social networks, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ can present your information just as publicly. The Library of Congress is even archiving every public tweet sent via Twitter. These issues may not concern you, but they probably should, as anyone can use your data from social networks to sell to marketing companies, and other companies are cross-analyzing social profiles to create an eerily comprehensive profile of habits, personality, and tendencies without even knowing you personally.
Protecting your privacy is easy and only requires a common-sense approach. Some organizations, like the EFF, offer advanced tips for those who are especially tech savvy to reduce privacy invasion. Our tips are perhaps more basic — but can help prevent a huge disaster if you don’t follow them.
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