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It's a lot of news going around the amount of private information we store online and who has access to view that information being moving around Lets see what the first question we can ask ourselves is
Why would someone want to track me?
- E-mail address for spam
- Physical address for sending product information
- Phone Numbers for selling marketing
- Web Browser habits to target Banner Ads
The more they know the more they can bomb bard with personalized advertisement
And other facilities such as Govt and other governing bodies are most relies on protected parents they want to what you are doing and make sure that you are not going into trouble and punish you if you do.
Well these are necessary bad things and underling issue that we don't have choice and what collecting about data there is no way to turn it off. Basically what ever you kept in internet its a subject to being collected . So, what option do we have to combat this let see some different tracking methods starting with...
Website tracking
If you went to any site and you saw twitter this , Like this page or g+ one Button .
This mean the social network behind this button probably know that your visiting that site.
Even if you block any site till they can track you by IP address (i.e unique address for individual internet connected to network)
site tracking
- HTML pages contain a set of data that describes and gives information about other data. they are called as metadata
- they can log your ip address.
- what time you have visited their site.
- past referrence that you other site visited.
- How much time you have spent in their sites
These date is enough to reveal your browsing history as you can see the data is so anamous . but as you can see they don't require your personal information to know your online activity.
you can use 3 steps to combat this
first install ghoster
which tell you what method each site imposes for tracking you . ghoster can be downloaded from the following link given below.http://www.ghostery.com/
Second check DO NOT TRACK in your browser
Do Not Track is enabled in your browser . Which is in your privacy setting this put message to all third party to turn off all third party trackers. that help in not tracking our history which is stored in our browser.
To enable this in your browser Follow the steps given below.
Open your Browser >> Menu >> Settings >> Click on Advance Setting >> in privacy check the Box as shown in the above fig.
Install Track Block Program
lastly install some good tracking block program such as ABINE Don't Track Me Application that stop most tracking methods. you can download this in following link given below.
Social Media
They use your personal information to sell to advertisement. And the most worst part is we voluntaryly give our personal information to them.
so what we need to do make sure they using our data our specification reviewing their privacy setting that we have understand them
also check the privacy setting for apps
IF YOU HAVE PRIVATE INFORMATION THAT NEEDS TO REMAIN PRIVATE DON'T POST IN SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
It also not a bad idea to mix up your online identity use your contact infomation only if it have to other wise
you can do things like generate temporary email address at
This will resist to hider your email address. and destroy your mail after 10 minutes .OR generate fake burner phone number to hide your phone number at
Now , coming to mail providers such as gmail , hotmail, outlook or yahoo
your email are stored on there servers so they have right to use how ever they want only way to remain your email content in private is to encrypt the message
encryption means converting your message into some scrambled letter that no one can read. this message is sent through the network and at the other end user decrypt the message to get the orginal message that you have send
the simple way to doing this is using a browser plugin called MAILVELOPE which gives the encrytion option to all the major web mail provider But the biggest source of data leakage is done by ISP
ISP
ISP stands for Internet Service Provider
fact that if you are connected to internet mean some company is providing you that service which mean everything that you do online goes to them first so they can see what ever you do and do what ever with it . that frightning if you thing about it but there is one way to avoid them its called VPN
virtual private networking.
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vpn make an encrypted connection from your computer to another computer some where in the world . So, all the internet activity is appeared to going through the computer that u are connected to not yours .From your isp prespective your internet activity look like a bunch of jumbled encrypted mess a good vpn cause a monthly fee but a decent free alternative is cyberghostvpn
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