Privacy Online: Privacy 101

This guide compiles information about threats to privacy online and strategies for protecting privacy.  This first page provides some basic information about who might be tracking you online and how they are doing it.  Explore the additional tabs for information about these topics:

• Why care about privacy, even if you have nothing to hide
• Social media and privacy
• Google (search and Gmail) and privacy
• Government surveillance
• Basic privacy tips
• Advanced privacy tips
• Privacy laws and legislation
• Privacy present and future
• Dangers of Surveillance Capitalism

Maintained by Roberta Richards
Portland Community College - Southeast Campus
rrichard@pcc.edu
971-722-4962
 

The first step to protecting your privacy is to recognize who might be tracking your online activity.  These links provide information about some of the main agents:

• cybercriminals
• tracking (See also the tabs for Social Media and Google)
• data brokers/miners   (See also video The Data Brokers below)
• peeping Uncle Sams (See also the tab for Government surveillance)