I have read an article, called How to protect your digital privacy from new Christmaspresents. I think that it is a topical subject nowadays. Our digital privacy is not something that should be left behind somewhere.

Alex Hern wrote an article about ways of avoiding useless commercial, so I have learned that I should be careful and protect my digital privacy. In fact, I wanted to know more about this theme, and that is why I started reading it.

The author gave 3 ways of protecting your privacy. He advised to don’t give up rights that you don’t need to. In my opinion, it is very important to really read what the commercial or a company offers you. To tell you the truth, I usually just hit the bottom “yes”, I don’t read what is written. Alex considers that giving your permission to your privacy without understanding what is going on will affect unnecessary calls from companies and their advertisements. He said: “Look for boxes to uncheck, prompts to decline and settings to change; that will limit the technology to doing what you bought it for, rather than what the company that made it hopes you will let it do.”

Moreover, Alex has an interesting comparison of two different situations. The first one describes choosing a course or a dish in a restaurant, and the second one is about accepting the default settings when you first turn on your smartphone. I agree that if you dive into the settings, you will have more control of your phone and information in it.

It was a surprise to me that a new-technology toys that can speak are able to allow hackers to steal family’s names, birthdates and genders, along with other information. Nevertheless, the author didn’t give much information about protecting the digital privacy.