Social Media Privacy

Happy Data Privacy Day!

Data Privacy Day is observed annually on January 28th to help bring greater awareness to privacy education. As the use of digital platforms for managing personal information, such as websites and social media, continues to grow, it is increasingly important that we understand what data we are sharing and how to protect that data. This can sometimes be a challenging task, especially since each website handles privacy and security a little bit differently. Data Privacy Day is used to help bring awareness to these growing challenges.

Maintaining your privacy on social media platforms can be complicated. Each social media site often has its own very specific settings and requirements that can make it difficult for you to really understand which portions of your data are private, and which are not.

This article, from www.experian.com, gives some insight into the realities of social media privacy and how it impacts users. It also provides specific guidelines on how to manage privacy settings on some of the most popular social sites (Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc.). It is important for users to be armed with the knowledge of where and how they have a voice with regards to their social media privacy, and this article sheds some light on that. Use the listed links on the right side of the article if you’d like to jump to a specific social media’s privacy settings instructions. Read more by clicking here…