Five simple steps to find out what Google knows about you – John 8

The problem of sharing our personal information online is that the network has changed. And a lot. Google, at first, was just a search engine, as well remind Kaspersky Lab, who have reflected on the personal information we share on the network.

The key to this is that the properties of Google they have increased including services such as Android, Gmail, Google+, YouTube, Docs, Drive and many others. “Although it is easy to check boxes, and accept terms without reading them, Google has realized that it is not Facebook and to some extent, values ​​privacy,” said Kaspersky Lab.

To prove it, just that you visit the “About Me” page of Google and select “Check privacy.” When you select “Start now” page will show your privacy online and what they’re sharing. The starting point is Google +.

At each step, you can select what information they want to share and what kind of audience, including the option to share with everyone. Depending on what services you use with your account, you will receive warnings that if you deny shared with Google, for some products this fact will affect the operation of the application or operating system.

The experts at Kaspersky Lab recommend performing this process at least once every three months, since no one read the “Terms and conditions” of the applications that we downloaded the “smartphone”. “Actually, this is only the beginning of the action the user should take to protect your data to advertisers, suppliers or third-party application stores cookies” recall.

Further notes of these five recommendations of Kaspersky Lab to protect yourself on the web:

1. Lee: No one read the “Terms and conditions” but we all accept. However, all users should read what agrees to share data with third parties.

2. Do not just single sign: It’s the most comfortable but the least secure. When you sign in with your Google account, and you’re committing to share certain information with third parties. Even if you save you a few seconds, you know what they are doing with your data? How to protect them?

3. Mistrust: Internet is full of weirdos. Your data is sacred, share only in places (and people) that you want.

4. The easiest way is not always the best: if you choose to share everything easily, the world and the search engines can see everything you want. Never agree to share your stuff on any network.

5. Uses a privacy tool: You can always use Tor to pursue a private browsing (unless the FBI continue their research), but the network is not for everyone. What is Kaspersky Lab recommends using solutions like Kaspersky Safe Browser allows the user to select what you share with third-party websites. This feature is available in the latest version of Kaspersky Internet Security 2016

Source:. Abc