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<p>Massive data breaches, marketers tracking every step on the Internet, suspicious people exploring photos you've shared with social networks - and more, but you can protect yourself: You control your data. Here's how to improve your privacy online.</p>
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<h3>- Check your social security settings</h3>
<p>If you have accounts on social networks, these networks contain a lot of information about you, and you may be surprised at the amount of your data visible to anyone on the Internet. That's why we highly recommend checking your privacy settings: it's up to you to select the information you want to share with strangers or with your friends - or even nobody else. Change the privacy settings for your social network account. Here's how to do it on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Snapchat.</p>
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<h3>- Do not use public storage platforms to protect your private information</h3>
<p>The risk is not limited to social networks. Do not use online services to share information to store your private data. For example, Google Docs is not an ideal place to store your password list, and Dropbox is not the best place to save your passport unless it's kept in an encrypted archive. Do not use common public services to share your private data.</p>
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<h3>- Tracking evasion</h3>
<p>When you visit a website, your browser reveals a collection of things about you and your browsing history. Marketers use that information to describe you and target you with ads. The hidden browsing mode can not actually prevent such tracking; you need to use special tools. Use private browsing in to prevent your online tracking.</p>
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<p>- Maintaining your main email address and your phone number</p>
<p>Are you rewarded for sharing your email address and phone number? Tons of spam in your email inbox and hundreds of marketing calls on your phone. Even if you can not avoid sharing this information with online services and online stores, do not share them with random people on social networks. Create a separate email address that can be disposed of and, if possible, a separate phone number for these cases. Create an additional email account and purchase an additional SIM card for online shopping and other situations that require your data to be shared with strangers.</p>
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<h3>- Use messaging applications with end-to-end</h3>
<p> encryption Most modern messaging applications use encryption, but in many cases what they call encryption during transport - messages are decrypted by the server and stored on their servers. What if someone hacked these servers? Do not take this risk - Choose encryption from end to end - this way, even the messaging service provider can not see your conversations. Use a messaging application with end-to-end encryption - for example, WhatsApp;</p>
<p>Note that by default, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, and Google Allo do not use encryption from end to end. To enable it, start a secret conversation manually.</p>
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<h3>- Use secure passwords </h3>
<p>Use of weak passwords to protect your private information is as good as the voice of that information to passersby. It's almost impossible to save long, unique passwords for all the services you use, but with the Password Manager, you can only save one master password. Use long passwords (12 characters or more) everywhere ... Use a different password for each service.</p>
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<h3> - Review permissions for mobile applications and browser extensions</h3>
<p>Mobile apps require you to give them permissions to access contacts or files in your device storage space, use your camera, microphone, location, and so on. Some actually can not work without these permissions, but some use this information for your marketing profile (and worse). Fortunately, it is relatively easy to control which applications are granted permissions. The same is true for browser extensions, which also have spyware tendencies. See the permissions you grant to mobile apps.</p>
<p>Do not install browser extensions unless you really need them. Carefully check the permissions you provide them.</p>
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<h3>- Secure your phone and computer with passwords or passwords</h3>
<p> Computers and phones store lots of data that we prefer to keep private, so protect them with passwords. You can make improvements like: Six-digit PINs or physical passwords instead of four-digit and screen lock patterns. For devices that support biometric authentication - fingerprinting or facial recognition - this is generally good, but remember that these techniques have limitations.</p>
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<h3>- Disable screen lock notifications</h3>
<p>Protect your phone with a long and secure password, but do not leave notifications on the lock screen! To prevent this information from appearing on the locked screen, you can set up notifications correctly.</p>
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<h3>- Keep your privacy on Wi-Fi networks</h3>
<p>Public Wi-Fi networks do not usually encrypt traffic, which means that anyone on the same network can try to spy on your visits. Avoid transferring any sensitive data - logins, passwords, credit card data, and so on.</p>
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