Info@wiperts.com 10 Useful Tips to Help You Protect Your Personal Information Online Knowledge is power, and keeping criminals away from your personal information online allows you to stay safe in an environment where your identity can be stolen without leaving home. One: Set your privacy settings to private Changing your privacy settings…
Info@wiperts.com Is it a Problem if I set My Facebook and Twitter Profiles to Public? Few people check the settings on their social media websites and applications. However, the default setting is usually set to public. What does that mean exactly? It means that anyone with a Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or other accounts can…
Info@wiperts.com What’s the Big Deal if Someone has My Home Address and Phone Number Many people don’t care and wonder what’s the big deal if someone has my home address and phone number, and for some people, it’s not a big deal. It really depends on who has this information and what they’re doing…
Info@wiperts.com The Three Things You Should Never do Online With so much information being added online, we’ve all said or written too much on occasion. Before the public was aware that sites like Facebook were selling their data and analyzing every post and comment, people felt free to say whatever they wanted on social…
Info@wiperts.com Why It’s a Bad Idea to Comment with Personal Information Anyone who is on social media knows the practice of commenting, but most don’t know why it’s a bad idea to comment with personal information. Many feel like they are making a point or sharing vital information to provide clarity, but many people…
Info@wiperts.com How to Easily Remove Personal Information from the Internet If you are ready to get off the grid, it may not be as simple as you think. When you want to remove personal information from the internet, you have to remember that countless places have your information stored online. If you follow the easy…
Info@wiperts.com Don’t Opt-In, Here’s Why You will often be given the opportunity to opt-in, but don’t, here’s why. The phrase opting in means that you are agreeing to something. When you opt out you are not agreeing. When you are given a checkbox to check that states Opt Out, make that selection. Often if you…
Info@wiperts.com Websites that are giving out your personal information If you browse a lot online you probably wonder which websites are giving out your personal information. Some do so unintentionally; maybe you posted something on their website and didn’t realize that that information could be seen by anyone. There are other websites, though, that purchase…
Info@wiperts.com How to protect your personal info on Facebook With the new information the public has about tech companies sharing user data, many people are wondering how to protect personal info on Facebook. Unfortunately, you can’t protect your data from Facebook; they have access to everything you do on their application. Every post, every emoji,…
Info@wiperts.com What tech giants really do with your data? Now that people know tech giants have been stockpiling data, people want to know what these tech giant’s do with all your data. For better or worse, whether we like it or not, huge companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Twitter, and LinkedIn have control over…