With the topic, like privacy, so commonly mentioned all over the media, we could presume we’re well informed. On the contrary, lack of knowledge is still the main reason for privacy breaches. Unjustified confidence helps hackers work their way through personal information.
Do You Consider Yourself Privacy-Risk Aware?
Before answering this question, one has to think of sub-questions rising. Who or what is endangering your privacy? Why? How? Where the danger comes from?
If you don’t know the answer to these, the answer to the main question is negative. Privacy is compromised on each and every corner of the internet. Most of all, at the websites, we visit daily. By tracking our activities online hackers pick our information piece by piece until they don’t get to something solid. When that happens it’s already late, and the chances of one being compromised greatly increase.
How Many Usernames/Passwords Do You Think Are Logged by 3rd Parties on Your PC?
In order to come to the bottom of this question, you’ll have to think of every account you own. After that, try remembering every privacy policy you haven’t read, but you clicked allow. This is a common practice, and the sad part is that most of those policies include a paragraph about sharing of your information with a 3rd party. This means those instances can see and perhaps use your login information. Further, this implies your personal information are endangered as well. If by any chance comes to your identity theft, it’s almost 100% your fault.
Do You Think Your Login Credentials to Your Bank Account Being Logged?
Not directly, but they could be logged. Bank servers save your login information to their database. They track it in order to improve their online services. Also, if you forget or lose your password they have to help out. The information they have help retrieving credentials. With the knowledge that banks can do it be sure someone else can as well. By getting into bank’s system hackers could use that information to access your bank profile. From there everything runs smooth all the way to your private information.
Do You Think Your Credit Card Info is Being Logged?
Since credit cards are used for online shopping the story is similar to one regarding bank accounts. Websites you are using to spend your money keep the record of every transaction. Your credit card numbers stay there as well. Good thing is that browsers allow non-saving options for these matters. But, browsers can’t hide official records website tracks. With enough skill, cyber-criminals can break into these records and obtain your credit card info.
The Results
With everything said and minds focused on every segment of privacy awareness it’s time to see the actual results. In order to do so, download and install PC Privacy Shield. The application is designed that way so it provides detailed information about one’s privacy, both online and locally. This means it can scan and report on all of your credentials, private information, bank accounts and credit card numbers you have left online. Only when you see how much of your personal data is scattered even on websites you’ve visited once you’ll get the idea how much you don’t know.
Don’t be worried about that, because most people don’t. As mentioned at the beginning “education system” is superficial, plus, attentiveness of students is not at the highest level.
In order to save time you would spend on learning, PC Privacy Shield does everything for you. All you need to do is to install it and utilize it the way you want it. Even with the default setting user can be fully protected from any harm. Privacy protection, in this case, means disintegration of all compromising material you leave online. Without any digital traces behind you can be sure that you are not logged by anyone.
This quiz was put together to show users what are the mistakes they are making. The information that they have missed out, technologies which advance every day, and the most important – ways to protect the privacy. Good thing is that there are no scores after this quiz, just new knowledge ready to be used.