Why do people cut the online profile

Anita Smith has always been careful about how much he shared her online.

However, his concerns increased after an abusive relationship with a partner and then drove it later.

Although the police intervened, he left England and expanded his online profile.

“Perhaps a few instagram accounts, including some articles, including some of the entries as possible, and a few instagram accounts,” MS Smith, the name was modified for this article.

Ms Smith working in communication works, still has a LinkedIn account, but does not use its full name.

“I have deleted a few things in my Linkedin, although there are several posts, there is a lot to be based on the earth.

“I did not approach how much I share, but I have recently placed because I try to build a brand.”

The original has kept a private Facebook account: “I clean up once a year and I check the photos and confidentiality of the posts and are tagged.”

MS Smith also warned the terms of social media platforms.

“I am watching the AI ​​trend and I know that many images are preparing many images and we do not have ethical rules. This other massive factor will not put my child on social media as they can use.”

Because the scammers are more complicated, research shows that more people are worried about the information they share online.

In a report of statist39% of respondents said they were concerned about how companies use online data, quarter (26%) to use a VPN.

There are a number of reasons for people to reduce their online profiles.

“First of all, people evaluate the privacy,” says Vytautas Kaziukonis, Vytautas Kaziukonis, which is encrypted by the user’s online data.

“Innocent information still, for example, for example, if there is a change in law or a political environment, which can lead to difficulties.”

Another issue is the explosion of the EU, Mr. Kaziukonis.

“Fraud improves and better and something that is important to all the cheats,” he says.

AI goes to a stage where people can imitate people close to you. Add any personal information shared online in the Internet, then there is a “deadly combination”, Mr. Kaziukonis says.

Also, information shared online with us is collected by information brokers and sold to advertisers.

Mr. Kaziukonis, the information is also available for scammers. “It’s in the wild west,” he says.

So what can we do to minimize our tracks?

It is important to think about how much you informed first online.

“For example, do not share your home address anywhere, for example, take a video with a laptop with a laptop with a laptop you have sensitive data, and not add all the details to your website, for example, for your date of birth.

“Can be leaked and used against you.” It also advises you to use a different email address for your registered websites. “This limits spam.”

It is worth remembering which information is entitled to ask which information from a company under the data protection law.

“Otherwise, they have to adapt as much as they can get the giant penalty,” says Mr. Kaziukonis.

Charity Privacy International Executive Director Gus Hosein recommends several ways to reduce your digital footprint.

Using a VPN (virtual personal network) for a price, it offers more privacy when a user is online.

It also recommends choosing web browsers with cookies-blockers and confidentiality control.

“The main solution protects our governments that we should protect the pressure to have strong laws to protect everyone,” Hosein says.

Karen Renaud is a computing scientist at the University of Strathclyde working on security and privacy.

Last year, the 15 privacy policy learned the policy documents that showed what a company will do with your information.

He saw that they would take 32 minutes to read the most complexity and demand the understanding of education at the college level.

“The situation is quite terrible,” he says.

It is a good idea to clear and reduce cookies that you have taken and accepted cookies in your browser from time to time.

“You can also stop some tracking. For example, Google allows you to prevent tracking of your searches.”

Some people apply to services such as Deleteme and Surfshark, which helps provide personal information from information brokers.

Amanda Unterreiner, the US-based data removal service uses the services of high-profile individuals as a product manager, video players and referees in Deleteme.

“In the case of judges … Because if they declare some decisions, someone may seem in their homes.”

Also remembers the continuation Killing last year ago United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson.

“The stories are regularly protected from such a spark, regularly protected.”

Ms. Unterreiner passed the process of withdrawal of information when connected to the company.

“You can see each place I live so far, every phone number, each email address, each email address, if someone wanted to steal my personality … Some would cause some real personal damage.”

The company also offers a service to make your home mask on Google maps.

“You can look at the street view, but this special property will simply be very pixels.”

Many reasons why Saam Collingwood living near Stratford-upon-Avon returned online profile over the years.

First, the personal Facebook account entered a customer in an email and was unhappy to his employer.

“They could see the photos from one night,” he says. “It didn’t go very well.”

In another incident, after sending a video learning to study a daily study on YouTube, it is a thrill by a stranger.

Moreover, online fraud convinced him to reduce its online profile.

He did not completely deleted his online presence, but he does not regularly send it to Facebook by reducing him twice a year.

“When people don’t believe me, I don’t like when people know I’m not at home. Most times I remove the label.”

He says the Internet security company has improved antivirus and security program with a service from Norton.

“I wanted to make sure websites don’t get my details. It makes me more comfortable.”

But are there any disadvantage to do so far online?

“I miss you to see old friends (on Facebook) and I would contact you for one or two years,” he says MS Smith.

Mr. Kaziukonis is very common to hear that people say they did not care about the privacy, but it believes that this is a defective evidence.

“They say that I have nothing to hide. But do they think they send each email? We have blinds, we want to feel private. This is human nature.”