Steps You Can Take To Protect Your Privacy Online

With more and more people using their computers for business and personal correspondences, sending emails and posting family photos, internet privacy is getting harder and harder to achieve.

You can begin protecting your privacy by putting a password on your computer. Set your computer to turn off after your system has been idle for a specific amount of time. Then require a password to be entered to wake the computer from sleep mode. Using this feature is a simple step that can save your privacy.

Be mindful of viruses. Keep some type of anti-virus software running on you system at all times. There are viruses out there that are designed specifically to steal private information from your computer.

Make a habit of cleaning out cookies on your computer. Every time you visit a web site, you are attacked by these leaches that remember your information each time you come back to the site.

Always read the privacy policy of every web site you visit, especially if you are entering any information. If a site does not have a privacy policy, contact the manager of the site a request to have one posted on the site.

Finally yet importantly, a major precaution you can take to help protect your privacy on the internet is to never under any circumstances send private information via email.

By following these guidelines and using a little common sense, your privacy should be a little safer.

Computer Privacy at Work

Come on who are you kidding? There is no such thing as computer privacy at work. It is work, not home; this computer is not here for your personal use. You are supposed to be using this computer just as you would any other equipment at work. A train engineer would not use his train to take his kids to school, just as you should not use your computer at work to forward that funny email to your sister-in-law. With more and more software options becoming available to help the employer spy on their employees, surfing the internet for your personal use at work is just not something you should consider a wise thing to do.

There are all different kinds of software out there designed to give the employer an eagle eye view of the activity of any computers on their corporation’s network. There is software that can detect when a personal email is sent, who sent it, where they sent it from, which they sent it to and what was sent. Employers can monitor the use of a single computer or they can monitor all activity on all computers. There is software employers can use that will send an alert to their own computer when a prohibited action is performed. Therefore, never use a work computer for any personal activities.