Patrick Domingues

#1 — Google tracks you. DuckDuckGo Doesn’t

You share your most intimate secrets with your search engine without even thinking: medical, financial and personal issues, along with all the day to day things that make you, well, you. All of that personal information should be private, but on Google it’s not. On Google, your searches are tracked, mined, and packaged up into a data profile for advertisers to follow you around the Internet through those intrusive and annoying ever-present banner ads, using Google’s massive ad networks, embedded across millions of sites and apps.

In fact, it’s a myth that you need to track people to make money in web search. When you search ‘car’ they can show you a car ad without knowing anything about you. That’s how they make money and it doesn’t involve tracking because it is based on the keyword and not the person. Google could … Read the rest

Email security isn’t just the email provider or your IT administrator’s responsibility. It’s everybody’s responsibility. We all want to avoid having to produce a new resume. Here are some Safety Tips to help you all be protected and keep spam & malware to an absolute minimum.

1. Change your password often.
2. Use strong passwords. Never use a password that contains “password” or “letmein” or “welcome”.
3. Use a different password for each of your accounts. If you use the same password for your bank account as you do for your email account, you become much more vulnerable to data theft.
4. Don’t open an attachment unless you know who it is from & are expecting it.
5. Be cautious about email messages that instruct you to enable macros before downloading Word or Excel attachments.
6. Use anti-virus software on your local machine, and make sure it’s kept up-to-date with the latest virus updates.