Your Privacy
Ensuring the privacy of your personal information and maintaining control over your digital footprint is more important than ever. We at Hacked.com provide practical advice, guidance, and resources to help you take charge of your online privacy.
In this category, you will find valuable content on a variety of privacy-related topics, such as:
- Understanding privacy settings on social media and online platforms
- Safeguarding your personal data from cyber threats and identity theft
- Utilizing encryption technologies and secure communication tools
- Exploring the role of VPNs and other privacy-enhancing solutions
- Staying up-to-date on privacy laws, regulations, and best practices
- Managing your digital footprint and online reputation
Dive into our privacy category and discover how to protect your personal information in the ever-changing digital landscape. Stay informed and proactive in preserving your privacy, and take the necessary steps to secure your online identity and data.
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What Is the ‘the Cloud’ and Is My Data Safe There?
If you have a device that was made in the last five years, you no doubt get constant pings about ‘the cloud.’ Tech companies are eager to have you transfer your data and documents into their cloud storage. If you haven’t made the switch, this move is understandably daunting. ‘The cloud’ doesn’t exactly sound like…
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How to Hide Social Media Posts
When you post to social media, your post doesn’t need to be around forever. If you want to hide a post so that it still exists, but it isn’t publically available, most sites make it possible to do so. Each social media app or site has different ways of hiding posts, so learning how to…
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How to Manage Your Privacy Settings for Social Media
Your online privacy settings are often ignored and forgotten, but they can be important to hide certain personal information you don’t want everyone to see. Companies are constantly buying your information from social media services. Hackers and cybercriminals can use your personal information to target you or a friend. Below is a guide for managing…
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What to Do If Someone Is Blackmailing You for Watching Porn
Blackmail scams are becoming a norm for cybercriminals. Depending on how long you’ve had your current email address, you may receive multiple scam emails like these every day. In most cases, these emails are blocked by your email provider’s spam filter. However, targeted blackmail scams are different and might be personalized, including your real name…
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Why Was My Facebook Account Hacked? And How Can I Prevent It?
If you’ve used Facebook for more than a couple of years, you’ve undoubtedly gotten a strange message from a friend at some point. It’s not in their usual ‘voice,’ and it’s asking you to click on something you don’t recognize. Your friend has likely been hacked. And chances are, you’ve been hacked at some point…
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The Worst Insecure Social Media Platforms for Children and Adults
After dealing with a significant variety of cases from our clients over the past six months, we have acquired extensive knowledge of how easy it is to recover a hacked account or take-down prohibited materials on the various social media platforms – including those frequented by children. I’m personally terrified at the ease in which a…
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Which Social Media Services Are Best for You?
Social media services aid global connectivity. But, they also come with risks. We trust social media providers with our data, and they must do their best to protect us from bad actors. But, which social media services do the most to protect users from harassment and abuse? 1. Twitter Twitter is a microblogging service used…
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How to Use Private Browsing to Stop Cookie Tracking
Browsers on both mobile and desktop usually offer a ‘private mode’. While these modes do not prevent websites from gathering your information such as location and IP, they do offer a layer of protection against cookie tracking. Cookie tracking is the act of websites dumping text files onto the user’s hard drive. These files are…
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How to Stay Safe While Shopping Online? Check the Reviews!
Online shopping is hugely convenient in the modern age. Without the need to leave your home, you have access to a broader variety of products than any real shop would ever be able to stock. You can buy anything from a new car to your weekly groceries with the push of a button. How can…
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How to Remove Personal Information from an Image’s Metadata
When you take a picture or create an image on your phone or computer, personal information is saved in the image as metadata. Information such as your location, phone or camera type, and even names and numbers can be attached to the image as metadata. Before you upload a picture to the internet or social…
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How to Report a Website for Abusive Behavior
There are over a billion pages on the internet, not all of them savory. Sometimes, these sites can host abusive communities or even indecent images and personal information. Coming across your own images or details being shared on a shady website is a harrowing experience. So what should you do if you find an abusive…
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How to Protect Your Online Information
4.7 billion people are active internet users connected through various sites and services. As great as those connections can be, they also leave you open to abuse and hacking. The question is, how do you keep yourself safe online? Below are seven suggestions for how you can keep your data safe. 1. Use Incognito Mode…
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How to Remove Personal Information from Google
It can be very difficult discovering that your personal information is available via Google. If someone decides to put your information on their website, Google will probably index it and make it available to anyone who does a quick search. So what should you do if your information has ended up in Google searches? Below…
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What to Do If Someone Screenshots Your Snapchat Photo
Snapchat’s photo-sharing service enables users to share private photos with each other that only exist for a brief period of time. After the recipient opens your photo or video, it is deleted. But that doesn’t stop users from taking screenshots. So what should you do if one of your private images is screenshotted by someone…
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How to Remove Copyright Infringement from Google
As I run a news site on CCN.com, we see our content frequently copied across the web. This is a big issue for us as these sites get readers from Google and elsewhere for content they have stolen. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how you can remove content that has been stolen…