Special Guest: Stephanie Humphrey @TechLifeStep
Instagram is shared with Facebook. "Your participation on any of these free social networks, means that there is a certain amount of your personal information that you're going to give up...The services are free because we are the product. Data is currency and if you choose to engage with the service and the platform, you agree, sort of by default, to give up a certain amount of data." Your email address & IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number on your phone/devices are shared.
If you don't turn off "location" on your phone,
you can be tracked all over the web.
you can be tracked all over the web.
All of the "Terms of Services", indicate that they don't own your photos/data but they do reserve the right to transfer it to whomever they need to and to use it in any way they see fit.
Deleted pictures are saved on the company's server.
Why? Because it's data.
Why? Because it's data.
Several data points about you can be taken from one photo that the company can sell. Great ads are not an accident. They are marketed towards what they think you would like to buy. A profile of you is created based on your comments, everything you like, and click on.
Do a quarterly review of your privacy and ad settings.
Click through everything. Especially, account ownership and control in Facebook.
Your settings are changed at least twice a year and usually don't apply to anything you uploaded prior to the change. For example, if the new change now makes your old "private" posts "public", you will need to retroactively apply the new change.
Your settings are changed at least twice a year and usually don't apply to anything you uploaded prior to the change. For example, if the new change now makes your old "private" posts "public", you will need to retroactively apply the new change.
Logging back into your deleted account within 30 days, reactivates your account.
After the 30 days, it can take up to 90 days for your account to be entirely deleted from the system. Logging into other services with your Facebook ID, links them to Facebook, allowing them to collect all the data that you use on that platform as well.
After the 30 days, it can take up to 90 days for your account to be entirely deleted from the system. Logging into other services with your Facebook ID, links them to Facebook, allowing them to collect all the data that you use on that platform as well.
Anytime someone is making something more
convenient for you, it's to their benefit as well.
convenient for you, it's to their benefit as well.
Stephanie's 2019 Tech Resolutions:
- Backup your data with an external hard drive (everything gets hacked, cloud services, Dropbox, etc.)
- Password management. Stop using personal information and 1234. Let the password manager do it for you. Also, use "to factor authentication" (the computer-generated code sent to you when you log-in from a different device).
- Add Identity Theft Insurance to your Homeowner's/Renter's Policy. (a Sylvia K. Alston recommendation, a.k.a. "Cousin Syl")
- Review your privacy settings.
- Do updates on your phones, computers, etc. It's important for your security.
- Be a better digital citizen. "Verify, then share." (Is it true? Is it an old story?)
- Make time to unplug.
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