cover image: TIP SHEET - PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY ON COMMERCIAL APPS AND WEBSITES

TIP SHEET - PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY ON COMMERCIAL APPS AND WEBSITES

5 Apr 2024

• Install privacy-protecting plugins such as Privacy • Teach kids not to sign in to any apps or websites Badger on laptops and desktops and apps such using their social network logins. [...] • Learn together how to limit apps’ permission • Teach young people to review and customize to access a device’s camera, microphone and privacy settings. [...] to control social privacy, but they increasingly • If your kids use iOS devices such as iPhones or offer options to limit data collection (or the use iPads, teach them to refuse data collection when of users’ data for things like targeted advertising) installing new apps. [...] To find the most important information, by-one; look or search for section titles like: • obfuscating privacy protections by making them • “Personal information we collect” or “How we harder to find or being unclear about what they collect your personal data.” do; and • “Geolocation” or “geotargeting”: If an app wants • pressuring you to accept data collection or to access your location for reason. [...] • “How we use your personal information”: Look TO SPY OR NOT TO SPY? for vague phrases like “business activities” or Parents often feel pressure to use surveillance tools “business purposes.” on their kids in the name of keeping them safe.
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