How to Mange Your Online Privacy ?

 Privacy is a big issues in today's world. As the internet becomes becomes even more entangled with every day life it becomes more important to be  protecting your information on online. On the internet, data has high value. It's stolen, sold, collected and analyzed. People are doing so much more online through their computers and mobile devices today. Whenever you download an app, visit a website or use a social media platform, chances are that company is collecting data on you.

Why Is Privacy Important?

The internet connects different people from every corner of the world, and individuals have billions of people with a single social media post.

The most important thing to remember about your privacy is that it is YOURS. It is your information, your habits and patterns and your actions. Therefore you should want to protect in any way possible.  

How to Manage your Online  Privacy?

1. Check Social Privacy Settings

    Social media is an integral part of our society. When creating a social media account you are enter some personal information. Social media is the easiest way to get personal information about someone. To improve your online privacy it's recommended to provide a minimum possible information to your social media profiles. A social media platform commonly uses information like age, interest, location, gender etc.. Providing less information  also lessens the risk over a data breach.

2. Don't use public storages for Private Information

    Over sharing is not limited to social networks. So you should not save sensitive data to a cloud storage service like Dropbox. Also you should not use a Google Sheets or Google Docs to save a list of passwords.

3. Keep Your main e-mail address and Phone Number Private

    Never share your email address and phone number to random people on social media. Junk emails and robocalls are the common annoyance when you give email address and phone number away. Most services today require that information for account creation. To improve your privacy, you an create separate email address for social media accounts. If possible, you can also use a separate phone number.

4. Stay Private On Wi-Fi Networks

    Public Wi-Fi networks usually do not encrypt traffic, that means anyone on the same network can try to snoop on your traffic. Avoid transmitting any sensitive data logins, password, credit card details etc over public Wi-Fi. If you must connect to a public hotspot use a secure VPN connection.

5.Secure Your Mobile and Computer with Passwords or Passcodes

    Use passwords or biometric authentication to lock your phones, tablets and computers. Don't ignore software updates. These update often include important protections against the latest viruses. If you continue to ignore them you could be leaving your smart phone's operating system and programs vulnerable to attack.

6.Regularly Check Your Google Activities

    Google knows a lot of things about you. It records every single activity on your Android phone and  Google Chrome. You can control your activity from Google My Activity Page. Click the Activity Control Tab to control what Google can save. 

7. Use HTTPs to Secure Your Online Connection

    An HTTPs or Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encrypts your online communication with the website. If you are on any website especially a shopping website, you should ensure that you have an HTTPs connection.

8.Share Online Files Securely

    Securely share files with anyone on the web by password protecting them. With a password protecting your PDF or any other file, you can rest assured that it is only viewed by the intended recipient.

9. Delete Cookies at Browser Exit

    You should delete cookies regularly as they are used by websites, advertisers and other third parties to track you online. You can clear your cookies manually or configuring your browser to automatically delete them at the end of the browsing session.

10. Use Messaging apps with end-to-end Encryption

    Most modern messaging apps use encryption ,but in many cases messages are decrypted on the providers side stored on its servers. What if someone hack those servers? don't take that risk chose end-to-end encryption that way, even the messaging service provider can't see your conversations.

• WhatsApp is a end-to-end encryption messaging application.
• Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Google Allo do not use end-to-end encryption.

Conclusion!

    Privacy on the internet is your basic right and you need to fight for it. By follow these privacy tips  into your daily lives, you will be able to protect your privacy online and your personal information won't fall into the wrong hands.