Lesson: Do you know where your data is?

You never know who’s watching. You can lock your doors, close your window blinds or only speak in the bathroom with the water running as they do in spy movies, but they’re still watching. These are the days of surveillance, and if you have a smartphone, use a computer or talk to Amazon’s Alexa, you’re on their radar. You wouldn’t take a shower in front of an open window, would you? So why do you not protect your online privacy? Oh, so you have nothing to hide. Would you like a stranger to know when you last bought a new pair of underwear or your medical concerns? If you searched for it online, somebody somewhere knows everything. Read on, fellow netizen, read on to learn more. Sometimes it’s right to be paranoid.


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