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Privacy Information is a project of Consumer Action, a national non-profit consumer advocacy and education organization. The legal right to privacy has been recognized in the U.S. since the late 1890s, but its roots go back to this country’s founding. The Privacy Information Project focuses on enhancing personal privacy awareness, spreading knowledge about consumer privacy rights, sharing ways to control who has access to your personal information and protecting yourself from online fraud, telemarketing abuses, social pretexting scams and more.
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Debt collection (Winter 2020-2021) In this issue, Consumer Action helps consumers learn how to exercise their debt collection rights: to demand information about a debt, stop a debt collector from contacting them, and avoiding resurrecting debts that are too old to be sued over. The issue also discusses other key aspects of the laws and regulations designed to protect people being targeted by debt collectors and includes sample validation request and communications preferences letters you can customize and send to debt collectors. (Thursday, January 21, 2021)
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Take control: Customizing your social media privacy settings (Korean).
이 지문은 대중적으로 사용되는 SNS (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, Tumblr, Twitter and YouTube)이용 시 본인이 원하는 단계의 신상 정보 보호를 설정할 수 있는 정보와 자료를 담고 있습니다.
This publication explains how to achieve your desired level of privacy on the most popular social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, Tumblr, Twitter and YouTube) and provides useful general privacy tips, tools and resources.
Personalized privacy: Customizing your Facebook settings (Korean).
전 세계에서 가장 큰 SNS를 사용할 때는 신상 정보를 신중히 고려해야 합니다. 이 지문은 페이스북 이용 중 신상 정보 보호 방법들(기본 설정, 고급 설정)을 상세하게 담고 있습니다.
Take control: Customizing your social media privacy settings (Spanish).
Esta publicación explica cómo ajustar la configuración de privacidad al nivel que usted prefiera en las redes sociales más populares (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, Tumblr, Twitter y YouTube). También incluye consejos, herramientas y otros recursos de privacidad.
This publication explains how to achieve your desired level of privacy on the most popular social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, Tumblr, Twitter and YouTube) and provides useful general privacy tips, tools and resources.
Personalized privacy: Customizing your Facebook settings (Spanish).
En la red social más grande del mundo, es indispensable abordar el tema de privacidad de manera prudente. Esta publicación le ofrece instrucciones detalladas sobre el uso de las herramientas de privacidad básicas y avanzadas de Facebook.
Take control: Customizing your social media privacy settings (Vietnamese).
Ấn bản này giải thích cách đạt đến mức độ bảo vệ quyền riêng tư theo ý của quý vị trong đa số các diễn đàn của mạng xã hội (Facebook, Instagram, Linkedln, Pinterest, Snapchat, Trumblr, Twitter và Youtube) và cung ứng khái quát các chỉ dẫn, công cụ và nguồn tài liệu hữu dụng.
This publication explains how to achieve your desired level of privacy on the most popular social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, Tumblr, Twitter and YouTube) and provides useful general privacy tips, tools and resources.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Data Privacy Laws: What You Need to Know. There is no one comprehensive federal law that governs data privacy in the United States. Instead, there is a complex patchwork of sector-specific and medium-specific laws, including laws and regulations that address telecommunications, health information, credit information, financial institutions, and marketing.
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Tech Support Scams and Tricks. Con artists behind tech support scams impersonate reputable technology companies to interact with would-be victims over telephone, via websites or by means of rogue software. The logic of such schemes is to persuade the user that their computer is infected with viruses, generating suspicious network activity or having system activation issues. The goal is to trick victims into paying for troubleshooting services they don’t need.
Sunday, April 19, 2020
Chronology of Data Breaches. Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has been tracking breaches since 2005 and publishes a Chronology of Data Breaches.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Patient’s Guide to HIPAA. This guide explains how you can use the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to protect your medical privacy.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Preparing Millennials to Lead in Cyberspace. Young adults, also known as millennials (ages 18 to 26), hold the key to close the cyber talent gap. Having grown up in a digital environment, millennials are well positioned for these cybersecurity careers, since they are at the stage when they need to choose a profession and will be in the workforce for several decades. This survey reviews U.S. millennials’ career interests, level of career preparedness and their online attitudes and behaviors.
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