Take Control of Your Online Privacy, 5th Edition

Develop a Privacy Strategy

Online privacy is, as you now know, a complex problem with no definitive solutions. But it doesn’t have to be overwhelming. In this chapter, I help you think through a high-level strategy you can use to inform your decisions about specific tasks such as web browsing, email, and messaging (all of which I cover later in the book).

Here are the major suggestions I make in this chapter:

• First, read What I Wish I Could Tell You: an overview of the five things that, if you could do them, would do the most to improve your online privacy—but they all come at a cost.

• Next, Create Privacy Rules for Yourself. These simple statements focus on a few types of information you always want to take extra care with and a few people ...