PRIVACY! PRIVACY! PRIVACY!
Email use exposes one to risks of privacy invasion. However, the ubiquitousness of email use is unavoidable for many us today. A few more years from now, email service will be extinct replaced by some faster, vastly improved means of communication. But until then, continue using email and consider GOOGLE’S Gmail first and foremost, if you aren’t already using it. No other email provider is as good, as powerful and as dynamic as Gmail.
If you are not using Gmail, you should consider switching to it very seriously. It has more features, operates more efficiently, has more power and is more dependable than any other email service.
This lesson is more than a sales pitch for Gmail. [ Full disclosure: we get nothing from GOOGLE for this discussion. ] It is merely an explanation as to why you should consider switching to arguably the best email system in the world today.
The world’s most popular and arguably most powerful email provider is GOOGLE Gmail. It offers more features, more tools, and more power than any other email system. Of course, it has limitations, chief of which is the commercialization that lirks beneath it. However, to their credit, Google allows users to override and eliminate many problematic issues.
Privacy has its worrisome anxieties
Privacy is the issue for many people. Computer users who enter the Internet world must recognize there is no such thing as complete privacy there. In fact, privacy in the real world may be non-existent given that personal information is given out daily and everywhere, unbeknownst to many, many people. The ubiquitous smartphone exposes the user to tracking every day, everywhere. Even trashing all your electronic devices and eschewing their use completely does not eliminate the invasion of your privacy. Cameras survey people everywhere. Credit card purchases expose the client to surveillance. Driving not only exposes the vehicle to traffic camera surveillance but depending on how new the vehicle is, technological advancements mean vulnerability to one’s privacy with the vehicle itself.
This is not an argument for accepting the inescapable invasion of privacy. It is an explanation that such vulnerability is unavoidable and that privacy anxieties can be reduced somewhat by using whatever controls are at hand. The issues and vulnerability cannot be completely eliminated but they can be reduced.
Here are some ways of strengthening your privacy bulwarks or defending yourself better.
- Use antivirus programs
- Use password managing programs
- Use trusted websites. Authenticate that they are legitimate.
- Open emails from known sources only.
- When in doubt, delete, pass, avoid and escape.
- Regularly check your technology for intrusions and vulnerability.
- Use assistance, support advisors, professional assistants who you know and trust.
- Use information sources and learn more about fighting for and defending your privacy.
You may not be able to beat them, but you can make it more difficult for them to invade your privacy. Learn how.
