EFF's Top 12 Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy

EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect fundamental rights regardless of technology. It is an international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization based in the United States

EFF give 12 top ways to protect our online privacy :

1) Do not reveal personal information inadvertently
2) Turn on cookie notices in your Web browser, and/or use cookie management software or infomediaries.
3) Keep a "clean" e-mail address.
4) Don't reveal personal details to strangers or just-met"friends".
5) Realize you may be monitored at work, avoid sending highly personal e-mail to mailing lists, and keep sensitive files on your home computer.
6) Beware sites that offer some sort of reward or prize in exchange for your
7) Do not reply to spammers, for any reason.
8) Be conscious of Web security.
9) Be conscious of home computer security.
10) Examine privacy policies and seals.
11) Remember that YOU decide what information about yourself toreveal, when, why, and to whom.
12) Use encryption!

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