REDES 5: PERSONAL INFORMATION IN THE WEB

PERSONAL INFORMATION IN THE WEB

Why is not it good to give more personal information than necessary?
Although in some website they ask for your data to access a content, or for anything, giving them your information is not good. Surely, depending on the website in which you have put your data, you receive many spam emails to your inbox and the mail can saturate you. With these data aside from that they can get to impersonate your identity, you can get to receive threats with which they try to cheat or deceive you. Also if you give data from a third party because the page asks you, this can report you.

What should inform you about who requests personal data?
When a website asks for your data, it must inform you about what they are requesting and what their purpose is (so they will be used), how they will be treated, if they will create a profile that will affect you and how long they will store your data. What is the right to be forgotten?
Whenever you want to delete your data from the Internet you can exercise the right to forget. This right is to limit the spread of your personal data over the network, since your data would not appear in the searches by your name in browsers.

Private navigation, cookies, avoidable risks and risk reduction when surfing the internet:
Private browsing is a navigation mode that our browser offers us, highly recommended when you use a public computer. It is safe as well as it does not keep the information type passwords, websites, accounts, etc. that we use in the computer and thus avoid that someone who uses that computer can access so much data. It also does not make you invisible to everyone, since websites know who visits.


The risks when using a browser are abundant, but they can be avoided. As always, you have to be careful with the updates and having the browser updated is quite important. Also, close the session when you have already seen the page and you are not going to do it anymore, delete the search history, use a password manager and the pluggins that you consider to be trustworthy (as well as check the settings of the search engine, and uninstall the cookies .

Cookies are files that the pages install in our browser when we access them. Through this, other web pages can know what sites we visit, and control our activity on the network. It is used a lot to introduce the appropriate advertising to every taste.



What kind of information should you not publish in your profiles?
There is a lot of information that you should omit when publishing it on your networks. All this information is personal or committed information and may be available to everyone. For example, personal and banking information, passwords, your mobile phone, ideologies, insults, some inappropriate behavior or even your plans for a vacation. All this can be dangerous to publish and can even limit you when finding a job.

Strategies and deceptions in instant messaging:

Frauds through instant messaging are very frequent and knowing them helps you to avoid them. You have to be vigilant when you receive a message from an unknown number (if it contains a link that redirects you to a website never to enter), do not send any chain message that normally warns you of a danger and asks for data or offers you a series of services in exchange for giving your number, filling out surveys, etc.
When they access a chat with you they can get information through the profile picture and your status (avoid putting personal information in it). That is why it is important to decide who you want to chat with, whom you should block and who is trusted. Also, if they get access to your messages, a lot of compromised information could be revealed and that is why it is important to talk with a closed code and understand what you are talking about. And finally to not lose your messages, make a backup.