Chapter 1

Storing Your Personal Information Online

Abstract

This chapter talks about what information you should and shouldn’t be storing online.

Keywords

Facebook; challenge questions and answers; online

Information in This Chapter

• How much information you should share with companies

• Risks of sharing too much information online

• Knowing how companies protect your information

• Cookies and websites

This chapter talks about the risks of storing information online and how we can mitigate some of those risks.

Storing your personal information online

In the modern world, we all end up storing information online, even if we don’t know that we are. Every company that you do business with stores information about their customers, including you, in a computer ...

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