
The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy : Practical Tips for Staying Safe Online.
Title:
The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy : Practical Tips for Staying Safe Online.
Author:
Blue, Violet.
ISBN:
9781593277147
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (178 pages)
Contents:
Brief Contents -- Contents in Detail -- 1. Get Smart -- Take the Online Privacy Test -- Eight Privacy Tips to Use Right Now -- Targets and Nontargets -- Losing Your Privacy -- Ways You Can Lose Your Privacy -- Protect Yourself Right Now -- Tape Over Your Webcam -- Lock Your Phone, Computer, and Tablet -- Do a Privacy Check-Up -- Don't Email Your ID -- Use a Password Manager and Install an Antitheft App -- Be the Firewall -- 2. But It's Just My Phone Number -- You Control What You Share -- Private Spaces and Activities -- Lock Down Your Personally Identifying Information -- Red Alert List -- Yellow Alert List -- Green List -- Information-Sharing Guidelines -- He Said, She Said -- Worst-Case Scenario -- 3. You Got Hacked -- One Compromised Account to Rule Them All -- What Honan Did Wrong -- Hack-Proof Your Life -- Make Your Address Hard to Find -- Don't Link Major Accounts -- Don't Use One Service for Everything -- Back Up Your Everything: Your Contacts, Your Files, Your Photos -- Encrypt Your Computer's Hard Drive -- What to Do When You've Been Attacked -- Recover Your Accounts and Data -- When a Service Gets Hacked -- If Your Financial Information May Have Been Exposed in a Data Breach -- How to Change Your Email Address -- Choose a New Home -- Set Up Forwarding -- Move In -- Update Your Accounts -- Tell Everyone -- 4. Female Trouble -- Recovering from Harassment -- When Will It Stop? -- Staying Strong -- Fighting Back -- Navigating the Legal System -- Getting a Restraining Order -- Getting Your Private Photos Offline -- Doing It Yourself -- If You're a Minor -- Outsourcing the Work -- Preventative Maintenance -- 5. Identity Theft -- Signs of Identity Theft -- Run, Don't Walk -- Place a Fraud Alert -- Order Free Credit Reports -- File an Identity Theft Report -- Contact the IRS -- Alert Businesses -- Don't Let It Happen to You.
Prevent Identity Theft -- Avoid Phishing Attacks -- If Your Phone or Computer Is Stolen -- Install an Antitheft Tracking App -- Permanently Delete Information from Your Device -- 6. How to Share -- Social Media Checklist -- Sharing Only What You Want -- Friending -- But I Can't Give Up Facebook (or Instagram, or Twitter, or FourSquare, or . . .) -- Quit Humping My Leg, Facebook -- Location Information in Photos -- Be Smart About Checking In -- Controlling What You Share with Google and Google+ -- Managing Your Google+ Profile -- Locking Down the Privacy Settings on Your New Phone -- Safely Disposing of Old Devices -- 7. People-Search Websites -- But I'm Not That Interesting -- The Dangers Lurking in People-Finder Sites -- How People-Finder Sites Get Your Information -- It Sounds Like There's Nothing I Can Do, so Why Do Anything? -- 8. Dating and Sexytime -- Make a Smart Dating Profile -- Screen Out Scammers and Stalkers -- Make the Internet Wear a Condom -- Private Time Online: Browsing Privately and Securing Your Sensitive Information -- Search Engine Creep -- Cookies -- Leave No Trace -- Keep Your Sensitive Files Private -- Erase Files Completely -- Make Your Browser Private -- Do Not Track -- Private Browsing -- How to Tell If Someone Was on Your Computer -- 9. Ninja Tricks -- Ninja Your Credit Cards -- Ninja Move: Freeze Your Credit -- Stealth Out Your Mailing Address -- Stealth Out Your Phone Number -- Ninja Tricks: Encrypt Your Private Communication -- Protecting Your Email -- Keeping Your Chats Private -- Encrypting Your Internet Activity -- Ninja Choke Hold: Strong, Easy Privacy Apps -- Ninja Your IP Address -- Use Tor -- Use a VPN -- Get Hard-core: Make a Data Silo -- 10. I Hate Passwords -- How People Steal Passwords -- But I Have to Share My Password -- Password Fu -- Resources -- Chapter 1: Get Smart -- Antitheft Apps.
Antitracking Plug-ins and Extensions -- Password Managers -- Searching Your Name -- Chapter 2: But It's Just My Phone Number -- Red Alert List -- Yellow Alert List -- Green List -- Chapter 3: You Got Hacked -- Account Recovery -- Backup Services and Products -- Create an Account with a New Email Provider -- Encryption Products -- Encryption Programs -- Place a Fraud Alert -- Chapter 4: Female Trouble -- Counseling, Therapy, and Support -- DMCA Takedown Request Services -- Outsourcing -- Reputation Services and Image Removal -- Revenge Porn Support Organizations -- Chapter 5: Identity Theft -- Antitheft Tracking Apps -- FTC Identity Theft Report -- Place a Fraud Alert and Get Copies of Your Credit Reports -- Place a Security Freeze on Your Credit -- Chapter 6: How to Share -- Social Media Privacy Settings -- Photo Sharing Site Privacy Settings -- Chapter 7: People-search Websites -- Find Tracking Companies -- People-Finder Sites -- Opt Out of Data Mining -- Chapter 8: Dating and Sexytime -- Browser Plug-ins and Extensions -- Browser Security Settings -- Chapter 9: Ninja Tricks -- Credit Freezes and Fraud Alerts -- Prepaid Credit Cards/Gift Cards -- OpenPGP Encryption -- OTR -- Recommended Privacy Apps -- TOR (The Onion Router) -- VoIP -- Chapter 10: I Hate Passwords -- Password Generators -- Password Managers -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy teaches you how to protect yourself online.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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