Online Privacy information There are a number of ways your identity and privacy can be compromised via the Internet.

 General Privacy Resources

•  DOD Identity Awareness, Protection and Management Guide (March/2021) <-- "Best practices" and detailed directions for all your accounts/apps (prior version = 03/2019) 
• Electronic Privacy Information Center   - EPIC cover all aspects of privacy on and off the net.  Of particular use is Epic's Guide to Practical Privacy Tools and Epic's Guide to Privacy Resources .
• Electronic Frontier Foundation - The EFF has many resources
• Staysafeonline.org
• ARS Technica has a good listing of the latest security issues

Your Social Media Accounts

• Facebook - Your Facebook information   (  access your information --> expand all )   and    ( download all your data --> all my data --> HTML )
                   Security settings ( use two-factor authentication )   and   ( Where you're logged in )
                  General account settings :  contact = email used for password reset 
• Linkedin - Download your data  (  the works  --> request archive  )
                  Security Settings  (two step verification )    and  ( where you're signed in )  and  (email and phones numbers used for password reset)
• Google - Download all data   (leave all selected -->  next )
                  Security settings    ( 2-step verification )   and    ( account recovery options  )  
• Verizon Wireless ( log in first) -  Security Information  ( account PIN, email addresses,  secret question, )
• History of searches and web pages - trends.google.com   and archive.org  (enter web address at top of page)
• What Google knows about YOU.  A detailed report that Oracle submitted to the Australian Government showing how Google is exploiting consumers and invading everyones privacy

Identity Theft - Once someone learns enough about you, they can assume your identity and cause havoc in your finances.

• Get your free annual credit report as described on this FTC.gov web page.  You are entitled to a free credit report once/year from each of the three credit bureaus.  Spread them out, this way you are checking a credit report every 4 months  (e.g. Equifax in January, TransUnion in May, Experian in September:  repeat every year)  Be sure to do this for every person in your family including your children.
• Identity Theft Resources - from Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
• http://www.idtheftcenter.org, 

The Future -

• What to consider when buying a "smart device"
• Who can view your webcam?  List of open devices,   List of default webcam passwords.
• Samsung Smart TV is recording all of your conversations.  How to disable Samsung TV voice commands.
• Lenovo shipped with crapware that made all https connections untrustworthy.
• Facebook has you in it's matrix. 
• Annual Phishing report  from Phish Labs
• According to literature/movies =  1984... Surrogates...  Minority Report... The Matrix... Terminator.. The Borg..  

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