This week it's all about internet privacy! Considering the huge Ashley Madison hack that happened a few weeks ago, how can we improve our privacy? For starters, I had no idea that the government can track our internet usage. Although I really shouldn't be surprised. Anyway, the article asks about what you're doing to secure your internet privacy, and when I thought about it, I'm really not doing that much. Sure, I use the popular browser Chrome, and I have a few different passwords that I can actually remember for varied social media accounts, but in the Huffington Post's article, there's a lot more that we could be doing, if we're not already.
For starters, I always use Google as my main search engine; but, did you know that Google can track you? For example, I've noticed that if I search for a certain item (take shoes for example), and then I go on Facebook, there are ads for whatever I searched for on the sidebar. One way to combat this is to use the search engine DuckDuckGo. The article tells you how to download DuckDuckGo into your Chrome extension (if you still love using Chrome, like I do), or you can just go to DuckDuckGo's website instead of going right to the Google search page.
The article talks about also using Tor, an anonymous browser that doesn't track your IP addresses or cookies. Can't remember all of your passwords? There's an app for that.
Although, now that I'm thinking of it, if you're not really doing anything bad, should you be worried about being tracked? I think it's more for people who buy things online, and that their account and bank information can be stolen.
See all of the Huffington Post's article here.
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