A few weeks ago I talked about the importance of online security. You can read that blog entry here.
Fellow voice talent and Nevadan mensch Dave Courvosier recently re-posted an article stating that Google has ten times the amount of data on you than Facebook does. You can read that article here. It makes sense. Not only does Google know all of your searches, if you use Google Maps it knows your location and travel habits. If you use other Google products like Google+ it has a bevy of other data about you.
In the aforementioned article, I clicked on all of the recommend links to check my online security and privacy levels on both Facebook and Google. It was about what I expected: probably better than most, but not as good as it could be.
How do you reconcile your level of online security and privacy with making your job and life easier? It depends on how accurate your want targeted ads to be and how worried you are about your data being harvested/stolen/sold for malicious intent. Some would say that collecting data for the purposes of advertising is malicious, but I think that’s the case only when they collect data without your consent.
Do a Facebook Privacy Checkup: (desktop version) go to Facebook, click on the question mark at the top right hand of your screen, and click Privacy Checkup. I didn’t see the Privacy Checkup button on the mobile version, but you can still check your Privacy Settings there. I disconnected all of the apps I’ve used Facebook to sign in with.
Check your Google Ads Settings: https://adssettings.google.com. It shows you all of the topics Google thinks you’re interested in and they’re easy to adjust.
Check your Google Personal Info and Privacy Settings: https://myaccount.google.com/privacy. I recommend doing the Privacy Checkup. I deleted my Google+ account as well. That felt good! I never use it, anyway.
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