It is no secret that you are being watched and tracked online. Even though it is smart for pushing the ads that suit your interest and taste, it is also easier for data breach and identity theft, phishing scams and so on. Except for enhancing the awareness to protect online privacy, you need perform practical measure from three aspects to safeguard your personal information against the threats.


Protecting your Device

Quick Updates of Operating System and Browser

Install updates of the operating system and important software for your computer as soon as you can. This would not only give you the best and latest information available (unless you get a very old computer and its hardware cannot support the new system) but also provide the patches and repair to the bugs that related to security.

The same theory as the browser. You should not ignore the update notice of other important software, either. Most of the software companies would update their security measure to protect users’ online privacy.


Protecting your Accounts

Use Strong and Multiple Passwords

Important tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Amazon employ two-step authentication now. This means that you have to use a combination of multiple credentials to get into your account, usually, a password and a six-digit code sent to your phone, your email or generated by an authenticator app. But this cannot be a condition to ignore the significance of multiple passwords.

You should remember:

->Don’t use the same password for multiple sites, especially these sites store personal data.

->Change your password regularly and change it immediately once you suspect that the account has been hacked or that someone else has tried to use your account.

->Use the strongest passwords you can. Using various characters (capital and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation) is important. Consider a 12-to-14-character password to be a useful minimum, depending on the site’s password policies. If you have downloaded Neptune SystemCare Ultimate, you can use the password generator in the program and note it down elsewhere for safety.


Protecting your Internet Use

Safe Network Connection

Do not trust any public open Wi-Fi network. Its owner or the Internet service provider can retrieve any online privacy from your browsing. If you still want to use Wi-Fi, subscribe to a VPN.

Safe Browsing

Visit Websites using HTTPs only. This s secure that the websites you access and what you do on it is encrypted; even your internet service provider just learns which domain you are on.

Clearing browsing data is far from enough, which cannot clear the flash cookies easily. To stop being tracked by this kind of cookie, you would better update to the premier version to remove it completely. Using the in-app Privacy Protector, you can have both the browsing history and the flash cookies deleted.


If you have done all of these things and you are looking to do more, the Security Column in Neptune Resources is a good resource.