Practice good information security hygiene
How do you protect your privacy and reclaim control of your personal data?
Posted in Practical Threats
Start by reading the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse’s series of excellent and practical fact sheets, at www.privacyrights.org.
They cover such topics as monitoring your credit reports, protecting personal information on your smart phone, understanding how information is revealed on line and how online data brokers work, safeguarding financial privacy and avoiding identify theft.
Other organizations offer up-to-date information on issues pertaining to privacy and information technology. Here are just a few. Check these out and bookmark your favorites!
American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
Center for Democracy & Technology
www.cdt.org
Center for Digital Democracy
Democraticmedia.org
Center for National Security Studies
www.cnss.org
Consumer Watchdog
Consumerwatchdog.org
Electronic Privacy Information Center
www.epic.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation
www.eff.org
First Amendment Center
www.firstamendmentcenter.org
Patient Privacy Rights
Patientprivacyrights.org
Privacy International
www.privacyinternational.org
Statewatch
www.statewatch.org
Tech Freedom
https://techfreedom.org