- Mar 2025
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Fraudsters can make messages look like they come from people or organizations you know; this is called “spoofing.” If you are unsure about an email message, don’t open it.
This is so difficult to tell sometimes. I sometimes delete messages but wonder if they are valid? I got one from AT&T that I thought was slightly weird but it WAS real. It shows how effective and informed these scammers can be.
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advertisers use cookies that can span across multiple websites (third-party cookies), collecting extensive data about your browsing behaviour and enabling advertisers to generate a detailed user profile of you based on your site-specific activities. This profile is anonymous; however, in addition to being a potential privacy violation, it can compromise equity of future information access.
I definitely understand the impact of this and how it can be difficult, but I also wonder because of how much online shopping happening that is getting tracked, is there a point in consistently rejecting cookies? Websites make it difficult sometimes.
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When downloading an app, stop and consider: Have you read the app’s terms of use? Do you know what you’re giving the app permission to access? (e.g., your camera, microphone, location information, contacts, etc.) Can you change the permissions you’ve given the app without affecting its functionality? Who gets access to the data collected through your use of the app, and how will it be used? What kind of privacy options does the app offer?
This is unfortunately something I am so guilty of, and I am rethinking that I said earlier that privacy and security online was a strength of mine. I might have behaved uninformed.
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Whenever you interact with online content your activities are not entirely private. You leave a digital footprint when you access websites, search Google, or download and interact with apps. What kind of impact can this have on your life? Why should you care?
I do wonder how posts people made before they were an adult can impact their future. If employers see something a young teenager posted, how often does it hurt someone's chances years later?
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