Chapter 15
Safeguarding Your Privacy
In This Chapter
Understanding online privacy threats
Increasing your privacy on the Internet
Learning how to protect children from online predators
Finding out how to identify and avoid copyright violations
Most people would be pretty shocked to realize how much information about them is available online. Anyone who is determined to collect information about a particular individual — such as a potential identity thief — can often find that information quickly and easily just by consulting publicly available information sources.
After information about you is online, it’s hard to get rid of it; information online tends to persist indefinitely because the whole system is so decentralized; you can get it removed from one site, but 20 other sites have already copied that information. It’s far better to be cautious from the get-go about putting your information out there.
In this chapter, I explain some of the major privacy threats online today and I teach you how to make it as difficult as possible for both advertisers and criminals to target you. ...
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