Get Smart at Home 2019
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Safeguarding your online privacy shouldn’t mean disrupting the way you live and play. That’s why it’s smart to understand what it
means to protect yourself from the safety of your own home.
Use a password management program.
▪ Norton Privacy Manager is a virtual vault that can create and store complicated, unique passwords for each of your
online accounts, so you don’t have to remember another password.
Read the fine print to protect your online profile.
▪ Check what personal info you are allowing the app developer to access. Always choose the least amount of data
sharing.
Keep phone calls, texts, and email private
▪ Norton Privacy Manager, can help safeguard your personal information, online activity and identify from cyber criminals
with your own Sudo virtual profile.
Secure your Wi-Fi network and router
Use a VPN
Use browsers that don’t track your search history
Use a screen lock to help protect your devices
Clear your browsers search history
Turn off “location services” on your devices
Avoid torrent or piracy sites
▪ In 2018, Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania released a paper stating that the more time users spend on piracy
sites, the more likely they are to suffer a malware attack. According to the paper, every time users doubled their time
spent on these sites, the amount of malware on their computers increased by 20 percent.
Install an antivirus security site
Rethink your social media presence
Empty cached files and images
HTTPS everywhere
▪ Need to connect to your bank, credit union, or credit card provider? Make sure to check the web address in the top
of your browser. If it doesn’t start with “https,” don’t log in.
Opt-out of personalized ads from Google
Get Smart at Home 2019
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▪ Do this through your Google account. Once you’re online and your browser is open, log onto
https://myaccount.google.com/. This should pull up your Google account page. If you’re not logged in, you might have
to first enter your password.
▪ Look for the “Personal Info & Privacy” box. Then click on “Ads Settings” in that box. When the “Ads Settings” box
opens, click on the link for “Manage Ads Settings.” This will bring up the “Ads Personalization” box. Click the toggle
bar in the upper-right-hand corner, turning it from “ON” to “OFF.”
▪ This will bring up one more popup box, this one asking if you really want to turn off personalized ads. If you do,
click the “TURN OFF” option at the bottom right-hand corner. Once you do this, Google will no longer send you
personalized ads.
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