Why Is Data Protection & Privacy Important?
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and a few minutes of cyber-incident to ruin it.
Data is the most precious thing this day and age in the world. Data protection is one of the biggest issue everyone facing today as trillions of bytes surround us. Today the internet influence a lot in everyone’s lives in all aspects of life. So, it’s essential to protect our data. It’s challenging to maintain data safety in privacy terms. But there are some simple methods by implementing you can ensure your data protection and security.
How To Protect Personal Data?
The protection of non-public personal data is another arduous task today because of hacking and data breaches. Data privacy is a fundamental human right, according to article 12 of the United Nations.
If you want to prevent confidential data leakage, please try not to use cloud storage as anything uploaded to the internet is not personal. There is always a chance of data leak from cloud storage. In 2012 hackers bypassed the security of famous cloud storage Dropbox and accessed 68 million user data, and in 2013, hackers stole the data of 3 million from Adobe.
Use an end-to-end encryption chat system with two-factor authentication security to chat with your family and friends and try to delete your conversion frequently after having a chat.
Who to trust?
Be careful when using different free websites and apps on the internet as they take some personal information from you. Many unpaid services like Facebook take information, and we allow this without reading the terms and conditions. Almost no one reads the privacy policies of any free service they use.
As per claim, an American database marketing company Acxicom have 10% data of the world population.
A well-reputed social network like Facebook is even accused of using data for political purposes without the consent of users. So be careful to share your information on the internet as it can hurt your data protection and privacy.
Use Of VPN
VPN (Virtual Private Network) helps you in online privacy and provides you a masking IP address, making you nearly virtually impossible to track. By using a VPN, we can ensure that no one can read our information.
Try to use a VPN every time you go online to maintain your identity anonymous on the internet.
If you search a lot on the internet about various objects and topics, use a browser to protect your identity. Tor is a free browser that changes your IP address, unlike Google Chrome & Firefox.
Conclusion
Data protection is a tricky thing, but we can take appropriate steps to safeguard our data.
If you have any other solution related to data safety, please share it in the comments.
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