Opinion: The Online Privacy You Deserve—Individual Measures You Can Take to Protect Your Data Online
By Sophia Tartar
Recent data-breach scandals, such as the Facebook-Cambridge Analytical Data Scandal, have been inciting privacy concerns all around the world. Escape hacking attempts, cyberstalking, personal data profiles, location tracking, personalized marketing, and data breaches by understanding the ways they work, their effects on your day-to-day life, and how you can take action.
Why Does Privacy Matter?
Just like you may not want your friends to know about your deepest secrets, you may not want your family members, key interests, travel plans, or political beliefs to be revealed by major companies such as Google and Facebook. Unfortunately, not only can your information in many search engines be legally searched by lawyers and sold to companies, but it can also be us...


