protecting your online information
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Protecting Your Online Information
It goes without saying that online privacy is a foremost challenging task nowadays.
Millions of internet users have fallen victim to identity theft .
So, Hurry Up ! It’s now time to protect your valuable personal information
1: Exclude your personal information from your
social media profiles
Phone no
Date of birth
Address
2: Check all your privacy settings
Make sure only your friends can see your social
activities
Yes, it is easy to change in the privacy setting
option
3: Choose a lengthy password
Have more than one password for multiple
accounts
Never use these as your password
1234
Birth date
Cellphone no
Home town
Your name
4: Do not share your social security number
Yes, of course there are some exceptions like
Your bank
Credit bureau
with whom you can share it.
5: Keep off the privacy settings of your phone
Disable your GPS Wi-Fi
until you need them…
6: Avoid spam emails
Do not respond to the emails that ask for
your personal info or password
7: Always check for the https://
If you are doing payment online , must
ensure the web address has “s” after the
http which means a secure site
8: Lie to your password security questions
There are some common questions websites often ask in security purpose but there are chances too that someone wants access to
your account.
So, it’s a best choice that you should lie to those security questions and
make sure you remember your lies.
9: Make sure your browser uses an encrypted
connection
It’s a process of encoding information so that the secure proxy will hide all your
browsing session
A web proxy acts as a middleman between you and the web by setting up an encrypted
proxy server on your PC
10: Put a Google alert on your name
A simple way to protect your online identity as you will be notified if someone might be
surfing about you on the web
It works very well, most important it is simple to access and a free method of
monitoring your identity.
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