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9. Online Accounts and Social Media

Carey Parker1 
(1)
North Carolina, NC, USA
 

We’ve talked about how to surf the Web safely and covered the basics of digital communications. Now we need to cover a few other related topics that have to do with your online behavior in general. We’ll cover online banking and shopping, social media, cloud storage services, and just commonsense tips for living in the digital age.

Banking and Shopping Online

As we discussed in previous chapters of this book, the security standards used by almost all banking and shopping websites are sufficient for protecting your credit card information, at least during the transaction. As ...

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