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Privacy 101
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Privacy 101
What is COPPA?
COPPA or the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule is designed to protect your kids while they use the internet. But what exactly is COPPA and how…
November 16, 2021
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Privacy 101
How Can You Protect Your Family on the Internet?
Nowadays, it seems more and more difficult to control the flow of your data on the web. Data brokers and hackers are hungry for your personal information…
October 17, 2021
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Privacy 101
What Does Privacy Bee Do?
You may have heard words like data breach and privacy threat being tossed around lately. And you may have heard that Privacy Bee is the best data privacy…
September 30, 2021
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Privacy 101
What is packet sniffing and how to prevent it
Take preventative steps to prevent packet sniffing, one of the most intrusive techniques used by hackers to steal personal information.
June 1, 2021
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Privacy 101
What is cookie theft and session hijacking?
Cookie theft is a lot more complicated than keeping a lid on your cookie jar… Crummy cookie jokes aside, cookie theft (also called session hijacking) is…
May 4, 2021
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Privacy 101
What is cryptojacking and how to prevent it
Cryptojacking can eat up the computing power of your mobile device and computer without you ever knowing it. Follow our guide on what cryptojacking is and…
April 21, 2021
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Privacy 101
What are computer cookies and when you should accept them
Cookies are nothing new on the Internet, but the neverending pop-up notifications nearly everywhere you browse are.
April 14, 2021
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Privacy 101
How to avoid phishing scams (with examples)
Phishing is one of the most common hacking techniques. Hackers use what they know about human behavior to trick you into revealing personal information…
March 16, 2021
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Privacy 101
How To Remove Your Name From Internet Search Engines
Search engines are powerful, widely accessible and free -- and have made it possible to find nearly any sort of information that you are interested in.
January 13, 2021
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Privacy 101
How To Know If Someone Is Using Your Social Security Number?
Your SSN is the key to your identity. And that's why it's so vulnerable: if a hacker gets ahold of it, they're able to crack open the most secure of…
November 18, 2020
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Privacy 101
How to Contact the Big Three Credit Bureaus
The Big Three credit bureaus keep a record of your personal credit status by aggregating everything about your financial history: outstanding loans…
October 20, 2020
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Privacy 101
What is browser fingerprinting? Here's how to prevent it
Just like a human fingerprint, your browser has a set of unique traits that can be traced back to you -- and everything you do on the internet.
October 14, 2020