Reclaim Your Online Privacy

By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, November 20, 2008.
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More and more, we seem to be willing to bare it all on the Internet. More than 120 million Facebook users upload photos and all kinds of personal information about themselves every day.

Whenever we sign up for a new email account or for free access to a Website, we gladly hand over our biographical data without thinking much about it. But on the other hand, we still maintain these expectations of privacy. We don’t like the thought of Internet lurkers spying on us, and we certainly don’t want to find ourselves victims of identity theft.

Journalist Eric Griffith of PC Magazine joins us with some tips on how to keep our data safe in an increasingly public realm. Click here for his article on online privacy.

(Photo by Mikey G Ottawa)

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