Using the Internet Safely For Seniors

➟ Someone who wants to embarrass or bully you. ➟ Plagiarists who want to claim your content as their own. ➟ Criminal organizatio ...

to devices, such as your computer, that connect with the Internet) to route information to and from you. They check which Intern ...

Figure 2-3 How Web Sites Use Demographics Web sites typically need information — for a variety of reasons — about the people who ...

Figure 2-4 Although Web sites learn this information, they may or may not use it in any way other than to improve their services ...

➟ If you were just on your bank’s Web site, the site you go to next knows where you bank. If the site you go to is one you trust ...

Figure 2-5 Your searches tell a great deal about you, and search engines have come under heavy pressure — particularly in Europe ...

information on a banking site because its terms state that it holds the information in the strictest confidence. However, you ma ...

Figure 2-7 Quizzes and Surveys Take a look at quizzes and surveys to understand how their creators use your information. ➟ Quizz ...

Figure 2-8 ➟ If the quiz has no questions of a personal nature, how and where the quiz provider shares that information may not ...

➟ Quizzes can also generate targeted spam offers based on your answers. If you answer a diabetes quiz that asks about your least ...

➟ Don’t click links in ads or e-mails, enter contests, fill out surveys, open attachments to e-mails that are suspicious, or res ...

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Raise Your Safety Bar Today W e don’t want you to have to read through this whole book before you begin using online safety prac ...

the target of a scam, and forwarding the messages to your friends puts them at risk as well. By forwarding chain e-mail, you may ...

Figure 3-1 Don’t Play Russian Roulette with Links Never trust a link from someone you don’t know. If you click it, it may take y ...

2.Click the link for the site in the search results (see Figure 3-2) to go there. Be sure that the site you’re going to is the c ...

3.Use links on the search results to locate contact informa- tion for the company. 4.Either call the customer support number pro ...

Create Safer E-Mail Aliases Your real name displays by default on e-mails you send from many of the major e-mail services, so wh ...

Figure 3-4 6.On the Web page shown in Figure 3-5, either delete your first and/or last name or replace them with other infor- ma ...

Figure 3-5 Use Passwords Wisely The prospect of creating a strong password, changing a password, or using multiple passwords mak ...