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Internet Surfing with Privacy in mind - A Guide for Individual Net Users
Step 4 - Taking precautions after you finish surfing the Internet
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| Do you share your computer with somebody else? |
=>Disconnect yourself promptly from the Internet. |
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you share your computer with someone else, disconnect promptly from the Interne |
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Remember someone with access to your computer can impersonate you under your e-mail address if your password is easy to guess or you remain logged on to the Internet with your computer unattended. after surfing. =>Clear your e-mail folders. |
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| Clear
your e-mail folders. |
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| Not only are e-mails
vulnerable as they travel on the Internet, they reside
on computers at the beginning and end of the journey for
long periods. If others may use your computer, make it
a habit to clear your e-mail folders and make sure you
empty the "Trash" folder immediately afterwards. These
folders are vulnerable, like all unprotected personal
data. |
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| Do you know and are you worried that your computer retains a record of your surfing activities? |
=>Avoid leaving an electronic trace in your computer. When you connect yourself to the Internet, your computer keeps track, not just of the pages you visit, but even of their content, for a while. If this is a privacy threat that concerns you, you can at least clear your temporary storage areas, for example, the "cache", "followed links" and "history" areas using options in your browser software. Alternatively, you can delete unwanted information from these areas periodically.
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