Given the current online climate, with advertising agencies; companies; cyber–attackers and governments tracking your every move, in order to determine who you are; what you’re searching; what products you buy; what you think; what you’re most likely to buy and more, online privacy is becoming a more sought after commodity.
Online users are always conscious of their security, as to protect their system from cyber–attacks, however do not give a second thought to their online privacy and how the information they emit to the outside world affects their security. Privacy and security are not always synonymous with one–another and having a good anti–virus and securing your system will not protect your personal information from cyber–attackers; companies or advertising agencies.
With 1,862 data breaches reported in 2021 alone, leaking billions of records to cyber–criminals, more needs to be done to protect your online anonymity; secure your records and keep you safe online. By being cautious of what information you give to companies; having a quality privacy suite and maintaining your online anonymity will better protect your personal information from others, with the by–product of protecting your system more effectively.
Websites will use online trackers; cookies; web-beacons (web-bugs) and your system information to find out exactly who you are as a person and record the information on their databases, which may not necessarily be secured well and with companies selling their data to third–parties, your data becomes ever more vulnerable, as it becomes more likely that one of the third–parties are a weak link in security, giving cyber–criminals all the information they would need about yourself.
By using various privacy tools, you’re able to better protect your private information by spoofing some of your computers information; disallowing or deleting cookies, thus preventing tracking across websites; blocking certain JavaScript code from running on websites and expanding your knowledge of online privacy and your rights, you are able to lessen the amount of information you leak to bad–actors.
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