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Technical Tuesday: Privacy Policies (an Overview)
A few weeks ago a fellow employee told me a story about how her daughter was contacted via text message by someone to whom she had never given her number, and when asked the boy who contacted her stated that he was able to get her phone number off of a list of Florida Residents. This employee as a mother was shocked and wanted to know how to fix this. So I told her about her privacy policies and how to tweak them to not share your information. In the next two months of Technical Tuesdays, We are going to explore social media and also some of the larger companies…
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Technical Tuesday: How To Stay Safe On Public Wi-Fi
Many of us today are surrounded by free or public Wi-Fi. Burt that is not the necessarily a good thing. In our modern day society we are all attached to our phones/ Mobile devices and basically our entire lives are on them. Meaning that our banking information our bill pay systems and our private emails/ text are all right there. Personally, I try to never use public Wi-Fi if its at all possible. There are a few reasons for this But for the purpose of the post I am going to state the top 3 dangers and also give you some options on how to stay safe. The first on…
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Technical Tuesday: Connecting with the world around you.
How to stay safe online. A lot of people don’t think about Internet Security but really how safe are you online? What programs do you have in place that keep you from going into the unknown? What practices do you keep yourself? These are all questions that I ask when I am helping someone with their internet security. Security online goes a lot further then just installing some program that is labeled Internet Security. What do I mean? Keep reading to find out. 🙂 Internet Security is how safe you are on the Internet. Well… How safe your supposed to be. But in reality… that Internet Security Program that cost…
