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Ask the Expert: What You Should Know About Google’s Privacy Policies

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Google’s new privacy policy changes have many privacy advocates up in arms. It begs the question: does our personal information belong to us or the corporations that collect it? Instead of being forced to adhere to these data collection rules in order to use a popular product, shouldn’t we insist that companies give us the option to allow or deny them permission to track and store our personal information? What happens if hackers get ahold of this information?

Read on for more information about Google’s new privacy policies.

How To: Job Search Sites and Your Privacy

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Make sure you protect your privacy while conducting an online job search. The following sections describe what steps you can take to ensure your privacy. 1. Don’t include a lot of personal contact information (name, address, phone numbers) on your resume This might make it a little more difficult for an employer to reach you,… Read More

How To: Managing Your Email Security

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Most if not all of us use email as our primary means of communication. Unfortunately, email accounts are also highly vulnerable, so email security is an important issue for all of us. This article discusses some steps you can take to ensure that your email account is secure. Email Threats Below are some of the… Read More

How To: Managing Your Foursquare Security

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Anytime we use any social networking website such as Facebook, we give up some of our privacy. But this is especially true when we use a social network, such as Foursquare, whose primary purpose is to tell our friends where we are. This article discusses some of the security issues users should be aware of… Read More

How To: Managing Your iPhone Security

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Smartphones, like the iPhone, have become increasingly important to our modern lives, and accessing account and professional content is shifting more towards mobile devices. The iPhone has security options that you can use, which are listed below. Use a Passcode Make sure that you are using a passcode onto your iPhone, which is the easiest… Read More

Ask the Expert: Can a VPN Protect You From Government Surveillance?

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The NSA story about how the government is spying on us is currently dominating the news cycle.

Is this the turning point when the general public begins to take their online security seriously? Click to find out what the government knows about you and how they got the information. Then learn what you can do to protect yourself.

 

How To: Managing Your Google and Gmail Security

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If you use Gmail you probably store a lot of important personal information in your account, such as photos, files, and calendar information. This article discusses the ways in which your account could be comprised, and lists some steps that you can take to help protect your account. Hacker Methods Hackers can get access to… Read More

How To: GPS and Mobile Phone Privacy

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GPS stands for Global Positioning System. Mobile phone GPS tracking can prove useful in many walks of life and especially when an emergency arises. For these reasons, the FCC has instructed that wireless network providers provide the mobile phone GPS tracking location information for 911 calls which have been made by callers. However, because a… Read More