17.5 Protecting Your Information Online
We live in an online world. We shop online (see E-Commerce, Chapter 14), we store our information online (Cloud Computing, Chapter 15), and we socialize online (Social Media Evolution, Chapter 16). It’s convenient and productive and fun.
The trouble is, to have all of those wonderful interactions, we regularly put information online that in years past we might have only entrusted to a close friend, if anyone. Online interaction comes with a huge burden of responsibility to be smart about the information we make available.
This issue goes beyond making sure no one steals a credit card number or a password. When it comes to outlets such as blogs and Facebook posts, people regularly share information that ...
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