Today, in this modern time where technology is so developed, people are using the internet for searching the necessary information and following the latest news all over the world. The Internet is really useful and you can find everything that you need (well almost!).
But, not all people are aware about the privacy policies of programs and Social Medias that they are using every day.
When you use networks like Google, Facebook and Twitter you need to know certain things for how to protect your privacy from possible treats. It is not really important if you use all Social Networks for games, music, videos, photos or chatting. Before to start use them you need to know how to protect your Personally Identifiable Information.
So, let’s see closely to the security police of Google, Facebook and Twitter and to see what it’s important for users to know.
Facebook:
Today, almost every second person on the planet is using the Facebook as a tool for communication and connecting with people from all over the world. But, there are just less than a half of the users that know how to protect their privacy information. So, there are several tips on Facebook that allows you to protect secure your private information. So the first step is to clicking “Edit Settings” for Ads, Apps, & Websites on the Privacy Settings page on Facebook. Users of their Facebook account should delete any apps that this social media do not recognize it. Also, if some of the apps do not run correctly, the user of their Facebook account should delete it also. However, if the users of Facebook share less information they will be safer.
Twitter:
Twitter is the second largest social media platform that many people in the world use. When you first sing up on Twitter you have several options. First step is to set up your tweets to public, if you want everyone to see it, but if not than you can set them to private. Also, when you will create your profile, in the place where you can change your accounts settings there are “Twitter Privacy” where you can read all the rules and set up the necessary options to have a private profile on Twitter social network.
Google:
The privacy policy of Google is always different in the past few years. According to the research, Google has the best privacy police on the Internet. People, who have accounts on Google, can be safe because the cases for hacking their accounts are really rare. However, it is important to mention that Google offer you to have several accounts such us: Gmail, YouTube, Google Plus, Google AdWords, Google Analytics and fifty-five other services. Their rules are that “one account is one policy”. So, for the users of Google this is actually better option and they really believe that their personal information is safe.
Internet is really large network. People are using it for everyday life. Because of that, social media are implementing their private policy to show to their customers that their information can be safe and they can use their services totally free and without any fear that someone can use their personal information in a negative way.
A good article on the important issue like privacy policy.