If you are Internet savvy this list is nothing new, but if your online security could use an upgrade, check out the following list of Internet security precautions.
You have very real concerns about protecting yourself from identity theft, about getting the junk and viruses off of your computer. They seem to come climbing back on as soon as you clean them off. Your friends tell you they got a virus in an email from you. It seems that your computer is doing things you didn't tell it to. Since the Internet is so useful and its benefits are becoming a common part of our daily lives wouldn't it be great to be better protected?
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Monday, January 3, 2011
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Protecting your privacy on Facebook
Over at AllFaceBook.com there is a great article showing 10 privacy settings every Facebook user should know about.
So if you are like me, and you want to use facebook to stay in touch without having your information being used in ways you didn't expect, this is a good read. For me, the most useful tip was the first, to create "friend lists". These lists allow you a finer degree of control over who (which friends) see your information. If you have "work contacts" and "personal friends", like I do, you can appreciate how you might want to have a bit more control over who can post things on your wall for others to see etc. Its all in the article Enjoy.
Now I'll just make this comment that these settings protect your information so long as FaceBook is not doing evil private information sharing (selling the information, being careless with their backup tapes etc.) AND it assumes that whoever buys facebook in the future also is not doing evil things, AND it assumes that their servers won't get hacked and have all the private information stolen and sold on the Internet.
So if you trust FaceBook, and are banking on them not getting badly hacked, this tips should help keep you safe.
Enjoy!
Greg.
So if you are like me, and you want to use facebook to stay in touch without having your information being used in ways you didn't expect, this is a good read. For me, the most useful tip was the first, to create "friend lists". These lists allow you a finer degree of control over who (which friends) see your information. If you have "work contacts" and "personal friends", like I do, you can appreciate how you might want to have a bit more control over who can post things on your wall for others to see etc. Its all in the article Enjoy.
Now I'll just make this comment that these settings protect your information so long as FaceBook is not doing evil private information sharing (selling the information, being careless with their backup tapes etc.) AND it assumes that whoever buys facebook in the future also is not doing evil things, AND it assumes that their servers won't get hacked and have all the private information stolen and sold on the Internet.
So if you trust FaceBook, and are banking on them not getting badly hacked, this tips should help keep you safe.
Enjoy!
Greg.
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