Staying Safe Online Protecting Your Privacy

The world we currently live in, and the one our children are growing up in, is solely based upon a technological world. There is no doubt that we couldn’t now survive without the internet. Is that a good or bad thing? Well, I guess it depends on your view towards technology.

For me personally, I think it’s fantastic. The opportunities that it will offer, especially to my children, are without doubt limitless. For that reason I’m all for embracing the internet and everything it has to offer but…

There is always a but!

More so when it comes to the internet because it is vital that although we must embrace and engage the internet, we must at all costs protect our privacy and stay safe online, more so for our children. We as the responsible parent must understand fully what our children are doing online and protect this for the sake of their futures.

So here are a few tips that I think are vital when it comes to keeping the family safe and protecting their privacy online, especially their personal identifiable information.

1. IP Address

What many don’t know about an IP address is that it will identify where in the world you are. Ultimately it will tie your name and address to your IP address. One way around this is a VPN (a virtual private network).

An excellent ultra fast VPN is a Bitdefender VPN that will keep your online identity and activities safe from hackers, trackers and anybody that is snooping around.

Bitdefender VPN offers unlimited encrypted traffic for up to 10 devices meaning that all the family can stay safe with online protection and anonymity. It also offers safe, online media streaming and downloads with no traffic logs and is available for windows, macOS, Android and IOS devices so it really has got all the angles covered to keep you safe online.

It is also important that you keep your computer running clean, fast and most importantly virus free and protecting you from the latest e-threats. Bitdefender offer a free antivirus available for Windows, Android and macOS. It stops even the fast evolving attacks and runs silently in the background. It won’t use up your system resources and it also offers live customer support unlike any other free antivirus software.

2. Passwords

Whatever website you go on, it could be online banking or shopping for clothes etc, all of these websites will require you to enter your password for access, but usually all your bank details are saved to your account with them so I would highly recommend that you change your passwords on a regular basis. This will hopefully stop anybody from hacking into your accounts.

3. Photographs (Children)

This is something that not many of us think about because like myself we are constantly uploading photos of our children to social media etc. What we don’t think about is that photo is online forever and do we really know who is looking at it? No we don’t have a clue. So if you are uploading photos of children, it’s vital you don’t give any signs of where you are from or pictures of them in their school uniforms with the badge showing. It’s so important to be so careful because again these photos stay online for eternity and I’m sure like me you wouldn’t want them getting into the wrong hands.

There is without question so many things you need to do to stay safe online as well as protecting your privacy and this is just a few. I’m sure there are many, many more.

I would love to hear what you do to protect your family online and tips or advice you may have.