Today, let\u2019s make a new year\u2019s commitment to protect our online privacy more fiercely than ever.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Take Action Today<\/strong><\/h3>\nData Privacy Day, celebrated annually on January 28, is a day to raise awareness about online privacy issues in an increasingly connected world. \u00a0Here are 2 things you can do today to protect your family\u2019s privacy.<\/p>\n
\n- Do a digital cleanse<\/strong>.\u00a0 The most important New Year\u2019s resolution we can make is to kick off the year with a fresh start with our connected devices. By shedding the apps, programs, emails or websites that you no longer use, you will limit the number of access points to your personal information.\n
\n- Review everything you use to connect to the internet and every app or program you use on it. Delete apps or programs you no longer use.<\/li>\n
- Remove contacts from your address books that you no longer need.<\/li>\n
- Make a habit of reviewing the privacy settings of all the apps and sites you use frequently, as they may have changed, and set or re-set them as needed.<\/li>\n
- Unsubscribe from emails you no longer wish to receive.<\/li>\n
- Back-up your files and photos, and make sure any updates are done for your devices and apps \u2013 now and on a regular basis.<\/li>\n
- Make sure the devices and apps your family uses have the highest level of security and privacy protection.<\/li>\n
- Change your passwords and make them as long as possible. Use 2-step verification (also known as multi-factor authentication) on any game or app that offers it.<\/li>\n
- Turn off location tracking for your camera and for any apps that don\u2019t need it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
\n- Establish good privacy habits. <\/strong>Every free online service, from search engines to social networks, actually costs us \u2013 we can see or find anything we want online, but only if we are willing to give up an enormous amount of personal information; some of this we consciously give up, like our names and email addresses, and some we don\u2019t, like our whereabouts or online actions.\u00a0 Encourage your family to have a privacy mindset and make it a skill they can practice every day:\n
\n- Talk to your kids about the internet as a public place. As much as we should use privacy settings to help us protect our privacy, we should assume everything we do, search, click on, watch, etc. is tracked and could be made public.\u00a0 Behave online as you would in public.<\/li>\n
- Encourage your kids to look for the privacy settings in the apps and games they love to use. Help them learn to protect their own privacy whenever possible.<\/li>\n
- Discuss what you as a family value in terms of privacy, and encourage your kids to respect the privacy of others. Don\u2019t post or share information about other people online without checking with them first.\u00a0 If you\u2019re not sure, it\u2019s best not to share.<\/li>\n
- If your children are attending school in a remote setting, make sure you understand the teachers\u2019 policy around turning cameras on. If it is not necessary, it is the best way to protect the privacy of your home life.\u00a0 If it is necessary to have cameras on, make sure your child is situated in a place that does not give up too much personal family privacy as a result.\u00a0 Or talk to the teacher about alternative options if it\u2019s still a concern.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Online privacy is priceless and we must help our kids and ourselves protect it at all costs. While some responsibility for this lies with the creators of the devices, apps and online services we love, our schools and our government officials, the best way to help each person be a strong guardian of their online privacy is to practice it ourselves and teach those closest to us to do the same. Moreover, protecting our family\u2019s online privacy is not just a matter of turning on a single setting and forgetting about it. It\u2019s a series of good habits that should be practiced for a lifetime.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Over the past year, we have collectively developed a heavy dependence on the internet as we fight the pandemic by staying home and keeping away from each other.\u00a0 We have made many sacrifices in the hope of keeping our family and our communities safe; one of them is to our online privacy.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Everything we do online leaves a digital trail of our personal information, held by 3rd parties; some of them we may know and trust, and others we may not.\u00a0 Choosing to stay home and do more online should not be a free pass for others to take advantage of our benevolence. On Data Privacy Day, let\u2019s make a new year\u2019s commitment to protect our online privacy more fiercely than ever. Here are two things you can do for your family today.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"by Lynette Owens\r\n\r\nOne year ago, many of us we went about our lives much like any other year, at the beginning of a new one, ready to take on the challenges we set for ourselves or whatever life brought our way.\u00a0 For most of us, a pandemic was nowhere on our minds.\u00a0 Now 12 months later, we have collectively developed a heavy dependence on the internet as we fight the pandemic by staying home and keeping away from each other.\u00a0 We have made many sacrifices in the hope of keeping our family and our communities safe; one of them is to our online privacy.\r\n\r\nOur choices to go to work or school from home, shop online, stream movies, play in online video game spaces, or connect with family and friends through social media or video chats help to control COVID-19; but each of these actions leaves a digital trail of our personal information. \u00a0Consequently, the accumulation of details about our lives lived online are held by 3rd<\/sup> parties; some of them we may know and trust, and others we may not.\u00a0 Regardless, we should not be penalized for doing the right thing.\u00a0 Choosing to stay home and do more online should not be a free pass for others to take advantage of our benevolence.\r\n\r\nToday, let\u2019s make a new year\u2019s commitment to protect our online privacy more fiercely than ever.\r\n<\/a>Take Action Today<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nData Privacy Day, celebrated annually on January 28, is a day to raise awareness about online privacy issues in an increasingly connected world. \u00a0Here are 2 things you can do today to protect your family\u2019s privacy.\r\n\r\n \t- Do a digital cleanse<\/strong>.\u00a0 The most important New Year\u2019s resolution we can make is to kick off the year with a fresh start with our connected devices. By shedding the apps, programs, emails or websites that you no longer use, you will limit the number of access points to your personal information.\r\n
\r\n \t- Review everything you use to connect to the internet and every app or program you use on it. Delete apps or programs you no longer use.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Remove contacts from your address books that you no longer need.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Make a habit of reviewing the privacy settings of all the apps and sites you use frequently, as they may have changed, and set or re-set them as needed.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Unsubscribe from emails you no longer wish to receive.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Back-up your files and photos, and make sure any updates are done for your devices and apps \u2013 now and on a regular basis.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Make sure the devices and apps your family uses have the highest level of security and privacy protection.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Change your passwords and make them as long as possible. Use 2-step verification (also known as multi-factor authentication) on any game or app that offers it.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Turn off location tracking for your camera and for any apps that don\u2019t need it.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n
\r\n \t- Establish good privacy habits. <\/strong>Every free online service, from search engines to social networks, actually costs us \u2013 we can see or find anything we want online, but only if we are willing to give up an enormous amount of personal information; some of this we consciously give up, like our names and email addresses, and some we don\u2019t, like our whereabouts or online actions.\u00a0 Encourage your family to have a privacy mindset and make it a skill they can practice every day:\r\n
\r\n \t- Talk to your kids about the internet as a public place. As much as we should use privacy settings to help us protect our privacy, we should assume everything we do, search, click on, watch, etc. is tracked and could be made public.\u00a0 Behave online as you would in public.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Encourage your kids to look for the privacy settings in the apps and games they love to use. Help them learn to protect their own privacy whenever possible.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Discuss what you as a family value in terms of privacy, and encourage your kids to respect the privacy of others. Don\u2019t post or share information about other people online without checking with them first.\u00a0 If you\u2019re not sure, it\u2019s best not to share.<\/li>\r\n \t
- If your children are attending school in a remote setting, make sure you understand the teachers\u2019 policy around turning cameras on. If it is not necessary, it is the best way to protect the privacy of your home life.\u00a0 If it is necessary to have cameras on, make sure your child is situated in a place that does not give up too much personal family privacy as a result.\u00a0 Or talk to the teacher about alternative options if it\u2019s still a concern.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nOnline privacy is priceless and we must help our kids and ourselves protect it at all costs. While some responsibility for this lies with the creators of the devices, apps and online services we love, our schools and our government officials, the best way to help each person be a strong guardian of their online privacy is to practice it ourselves and teach those closest to us to do the same. Moreover, protecting our family\u2019s online privacy is not just a matter of turning on a single setting and forgetting about it. It\u2019s a series of good habits that should be practiced for a lifetime.","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[134,8,5,11,25,10,57,23,28,12],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-parents","category-for-teachers","tag-dataprivacyday","tag-digital-citizenship","tag-internet-safety","tag-kids","tag-online-privacy","tag-online-safety","tag-parents","tag-privacy","tag-right-to-privacy","tag-social-networking","wpautop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Take Action Today<\/strong><\/h3>\n- \n
- Review everything you use to connect to the internet and every app or program you use on it. Delete apps or programs you no longer use.<\/li>\n
- Remove contacts from your address books that you no longer need.<\/li>\n
- Make a habit of reviewing the privacy settings of all the apps and sites you use frequently, as they may have changed, and set or re-set them as needed.<\/li>\n
- Unsubscribe from emails you no longer wish to receive.<\/li>\n
- Back-up your files and photos, and make sure any updates are done for your devices and apps \u2013 now and on a regular basis.<\/li>\n
- Make sure the devices and apps your family uses have the highest level of security and privacy protection.<\/li>\n
- Change your passwords and make them as long as possible. Use 2-step verification (also known as multi-factor authentication) on any game or app that offers it.<\/li>\n
- Turn off location tracking for your camera and for any apps that don\u2019t need it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
- \n
- Establish good privacy habits. <\/strong>Every free online service, from search engines to social networks, actually costs us \u2013 we can see or find anything we want online, but only if we are willing to give up an enormous amount of personal information; some of this we consciously give up, like our names and email addresses, and some we don\u2019t, like our whereabouts or online actions.\u00a0 Encourage your family to have a privacy mindset and make it a skill they can practice every day:\n
- \n
- Talk to your kids about the internet as a public place. As much as we should use privacy settings to help us protect our privacy, we should assume everything we do, search, click on, watch, etc. is tracked and could be made public.\u00a0 Behave online as you would in public.<\/li>\n
- Encourage your kids to look for the privacy settings in the apps and games they love to use. Help them learn to protect their own privacy whenever possible.<\/li>\n
- Discuss what you as a family value in terms of privacy, and encourage your kids to respect the privacy of others. Don\u2019t post or share information about other people online without checking with them first.\u00a0 If you\u2019re not sure, it\u2019s best not to share.<\/li>\n
- If your children are attending school in a remote setting, make sure you understand the teachers\u2019 policy around turning cameras on. If it is not necessary, it is the best way to protect the privacy of your home life.\u00a0 If it is necessary to have cameras on, make sure your child is situated in a place that does not give up too much personal family privacy as a result.\u00a0 Or talk to the teacher about alternative options if it\u2019s still a concern.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Online privacy is priceless and we must help our kids and ourselves protect it at all costs. While some responsibility for this lies with the creators of the devices, apps and online services we love, our schools and our government officials, the best way to help each person be a strong guardian of their online privacy is to practice it ourselves and teach those closest to us to do the same. Moreover, protecting our family\u2019s online privacy is not just a matter of turning on a single setting and forgetting about it. It\u2019s a series of good habits that should be practiced for a lifetime.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Over the past year, we have collectively developed a heavy dependence on the internet as we fight the pandemic by staying home and keeping away from each other.\u00a0 We have made many sacrifices in the hope of keeping our family and our communities safe; one of them is to our online privacy.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Everything we do online leaves a digital trail of our personal information, held by 3rd parties; some of them we may know and trust, and others we may not.\u00a0 Choosing to stay home and do more online should not be a free pass for others to take advantage of our benevolence. On Data Privacy Day, let\u2019s make a new year\u2019s commitment to protect our online privacy more fiercely than ever. Here are two things you can do for your family today.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"by Lynette Owens\r\n\r\nOne year ago, many of us we went about our lives much like any other year, at the beginning of a new one, ready to take on the challenges we set for ourselves or whatever life brought our way.\u00a0 For most of us, a pandemic was nowhere on our minds.\u00a0 Now 12 months later, we have collectively developed a heavy dependence on the internet as we fight the pandemic by staying home and keeping away from each other.\u00a0 We have made many sacrifices in the hope of keeping our family and our communities safe; one of them is to our online privacy.\r\n\r\nOur choices to go to work or school from home, shop online, stream movies, play in online video game spaces, or connect with family and friends through social media or video chats help to control COVID-19; but each of these actions leaves a digital trail of our personal information. \u00a0Consequently, the accumulation of details about our lives lived online are held by 3rd<\/sup> parties; some of them we may know and trust, and others we may not.\u00a0 Regardless, we should not be penalized for doing the right thing.\u00a0 Choosing to stay home and do more online should not be a free pass for others to take advantage of our benevolence.\r\n\r\nToday, let\u2019s make a new year\u2019s commitment to protect our online privacy more fiercely than ever.\r\n
<\/a>Take Action Today<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nData Privacy Day, celebrated annually on January 28, is a day to raise awareness about online privacy issues in an increasingly connected world. \u00a0Here are 2 things you can do today to protect your family\u2019s privacy.\r\n- \r\n \t
- Do a digital cleanse<\/strong>.\u00a0 The most important New Year\u2019s resolution we can make is to kick off the year with a fresh start with our connected devices. By shedding the apps, programs, emails or websites that you no longer use, you will limit the number of access points to your personal information.\r\n
- \r\n \t
- Review everything you use to connect to the internet and every app or program you use on it. Delete apps or programs you no longer use.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Remove contacts from your address books that you no longer need.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Make a habit of reviewing the privacy settings of all the apps and sites you use frequently, as they may have changed, and set or re-set them as needed.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Unsubscribe from emails you no longer wish to receive.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Back-up your files and photos, and make sure any updates are done for your devices and apps \u2013 now and on a regular basis.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Make sure the devices and apps your family uses have the highest level of security and privacy protection.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Change your passwords and make them as long as possible. Use 2-step verification (also known as multi-factor authentication) on any game or app that offers it.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Turn off location tracking for your camera and for any apps that don\u2019t need it.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n
- \r\n \t
- Establish good privacy habits. <\/strong>Every free online service, from search engines to social networks, actually costs us \u2013 we can see or find anything we want online, but only if we are willing to give up an enormous amount of personal information; some of this we consciously give up, like our names and email addresses, and some we don\u2019t, like our whereabouts or online actions.\u00a0 Encourage your family to have a privacy mindset and make it a skill they can practice every day:\r\n
- \r\n \t
- Talk to your kids about the internet as a public place. As much as we should use privacy settings to help us protect our privacy, we should assume everything we do, search, click on, watch, etc. is tracked and could be made public.\u00a0 Behave online as you would in public.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Encourage your kids to look for the privacy settings in the apps and games they love to use. Help them learn to protect their own privacy whenever possible.<\/li>\r\n \t
- Discuss what you as a family value in terms of privacy, and encourage your kids to respect the privacy of others. Don\u2019t post or share information about other people online without checking with them first.\u00a0 If you\u2019re not sure, it\u2019s best not to share.<\/li>\r\n \t
- If your children are attending school in a remote setting, make sure you understand the teachers\u2019 policy around turning cameras on. If it is not necessary, it is the best way to protect the privacy of your home life.\u00a0 If it is necessary to have cameras on, make sure your child is situated in a place that does not give up too much personal family privacy as a result.\u00a0 Or talk to the teacher about alternative options if it\u2019s still a concern.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nOnline privacy is priceless and we must help our kids and ourselves protect it at all costs. While some responsibility for this lies with the creators of the devices, apps and online services we love, our schools and our government officials, the best way to help each person be a strong guardian of their online privacy is to practice it ourselves and teach those closest to us to do the same. Moreover, protecting our family\u2019s online privacy is not just a matter of turning on a single setting and forgetting about it. It\u2019s a series of good habits that should be practiced for a lifetime.","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[134,8,5,11,25,10,57,23,28,12],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-parents","category-for-teachers","tag-dataprivacyday","tag-digital-citizenship","tag-internet-safety","tag-kids","tag-online-privacy","tag-online-safety","tag-parents","tag-privacy","tag-right-to-privacy","tag-social-networking","wpautop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Establish good privacy habits. <\/strong>Every free online service, from search engines to social networks, actually costs us \u2013 we can see or find anything we want online, but only if we are willing to give up an enormous amount of personal information; some of this we consciously give up, like our names and email addresses, and some we don\u2019t, like our whereabouts or online actions.\u00a0 Encourage your family to have a privacy mindset and make it a skill they can practice every day:\r\n
- Do a digital cleanse<\/strong>.\u00a0 The most important New Year\u2019s resolution we can make is to kick off the year with a fresh start with our connected devices. By shedding the apps, programs, emails or websites that you no longer use, you will limit the number of access points to your personal information.\r\n
- Establish good privacy habits. <\/strong>Every free online service, from search engines to social networks, actually costs us \u2013 we can see or find anything we want online, but only if we are willing to give up an enormous amount of personal information; some of this we consciously give up, like our names and email addresses, and some we don\u2019t, like our whereabouts or online actions.\u00a0 Encourage your family to have a privacy mindset and make it a skill they can practice every day:\n