protecting your privacy online molly immendorf ce technology services
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How to be social, but not give away the farm
Protecting Your Privacy Online
Molly ImmendorfCE Technology Services
Caveat
Do as I say, not as I do
Practical Tips: Online
Passwords Lie Secure connection
(SSL) Vanity search Junk Account Terms of Service Billboards/T-Shirt
Passwords
Don’t use your banking password for anything else
Use strong passwords (min 8 characters, alpha-numeric, mixed case)
Consider using a password keeper (i.e., LastPass)
Junk Account
Create a free email account for online registrations
Lie
Don’t use your correct birth date
Make up your mother’s maiden name, elementary school name, favorite pet name, etc.
"123 No Such Street, Nowhere, WI 01010"
Secure Connections
When filling out sensitive data on surveys, make sure that it is a secure connection (SSL)
Https://
Vanity Search
Put your name in quotes in the search engine.
Terms of Service
Billboards and T-Shirts
Activity: Take a post-it or piece of paper and write on it the funniest thing that ever happened to you… last week, last month, last year or in your lifetime.
Wait for instructions…
Practical Tips: Social Networking Work account Vacation status Friend Lists Micro-manage Facebook Secure
Browsing Tagging photos Kids’ names and
info Apps
Work Accounts
Create separate work and personal accounts
Note: Not officially allowed by Facebook’s Terms of Service
Friends, Fans and Followers
Friends, Fans and Followers• Create Lists of Friends and Pages
Friends, Fans and Followers
Use Your Lists –Status Updates
“Public” means the whole Internet
We Know What You Are Doing (not censored)
Micro-manage Your Privacy Settings
Most FB users accept the defaults
Customize Settings
Privacy details
Use the friends list to personalize your privacy settings
Edit all your privacy settings
Facebook Apps –most ask for lots of access
Facebook Apps –most ask for lots of access
Apps Access Check-Up
Apps Access Check-Up
Apps Access Check-Up
Facebook Tags
Timeline and Photo Access
Facebook Secure Browsing/ HTTPS
Facebook Secure Browsing/ HTTPS
Kids’ names and information Photo releases
Avoid identifiable photos (signs)
Don’t tag in Facebook
Use initials for ID
Hmm, that’s strange
Weird status messages = potential virus
If it sounds too good to be true…
Up-to-the-minute news
Facebook “Find Friends Nearby” http://
www.pcworld.com/article/258268/facebook_find_friends_nearby_brings_privacy_concerns.html
http://lifehacker.com/5921173/remains-of-the-day-facebook-immediately-kills-new-find-friends-nearby-feature
Facebook changes your email to *@facebook.com http://
lifehacker.com/5921095/facebook-just-changed-your-email-without-permission-heres-how-to-get-it-back
Facebook Safety Page
http://www.facebook.com/fbsafety
Online Privacy Resources
Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/
Lifehacker http://lifehacker.com/
Federal Trade Commission: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/index.html http://www.onguardonline.gov/
Snopes Scam Checker http://snopes.com/
Contact information
Molly ImmendorfInstructional Technology SpecialistCooperative Extension Technology
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