Your Right To Privacy - Minimize Your Digital Footprint - Legal Series
Hacking, snooping and invading are commonplace on the Internet. Your personal information can be seen and shared and your privacy can be violated. Two veteran journalists, authorities on how information is handled in the digital age, have written a definitive guide to minimize your digital footprint, protect your vital information and prevent it from being misused. Jim Bronskill and David McKie argue there are steps each of us can take to keep our important data out of reach while still participating fully in new technologies. They identify the pitfalls we can make and the small moves that will help us avoid them. Their book makes an important contribution in enforcing our right to privacy at a time when governments, special interests and others are trying to watch everything we do. 'Your Right To Privacy' outlines in detail how to keep your information as safe as possible in an age of hacking, sharing and surveillance. This is the definitive guide on how to minimize your digital footprint and protect your privacy in the digital age.
Hacking, snooping and invading are commonplace on the Internet. Your personal information can be seen and shared and your privacy can be violated. Two veteran journalists, authorities on how information is handled in the digital age, have written a definitive guide to minimize your digital footprint, protect your vital information and prevent it from being misused.
Jim Bronskill and David McKie argue there are steps each of us can take to keep our important data out of reach while still participating fully in new technologies. They identify the pitfalls we can make and the small moves that will help us avoid them. Their book makes an important contribution in enforcing our right to privacy at a time when governments, special interests and others are trying to watch everything we do.
'Your Right To Privacy' outlines in detail how to keep your information as safe as possible in an age of hacking, sharing and surveillance. This is the definitive guide on how to minimize your digital footprint and protect your privacy in the digital age.
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collected.”<br />
Activate your browser’s “Do Not Track” option: For instance, when going<br />
into your Google Chrome’s advanced settings and activating the Do Not Track<br />
option, you can learn more about the option from the pop-up box (see Sample<br />
3).<br />
Sample 3: Google Chrome’s Do Not Track Option<br />
However, as you can see from the wording, there are no guarantees.<br />
Websites can, and do, ignore the request. Still, it’s worth activating the option.<br />
If you’re using the most recent version of Firefox, you can turn on Do Not<br />
Track by going into your preferences or options section and checking the box<br />
that says, “Tell sites that I do not want to be tracked” (see Sample 4).<br />
Sample 4: Firefox Do Not Track Option
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