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Your personal information is at risk | Top 5 phone apps to make you more private and secure

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Did you know that in many cases, anyone can do a simple web search of your name or phone number and find your home address, family members’ names, and other personal information—for free? Most people are either oblivious to this, or they know but simply don’t care. For those who do care, there are steps you can take to protect your personal information.

Your smartphone goes everywhere with you, and contains all of your most sensitive information. With every digital purchase or online account set-up, your personal information is being gathered and shared—often sold. It will soon be on countless websites for any identity thief, ex-lover, stalker, or any random person who might be curious about who you are and where you live.

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  • Nick Coffman

    Ha you want to mess with a program that can shut down the internet for you? If you use a Mac, check out one called “Little Snitch”

  • Mason

    UBlock and AVAST plugins combined, pretty much shut down the Internet, lol. I was just curious, not rendering judgement, the digital world is a vast spaghetti monster, and hard to secure.

  • Nick Coffman

    I use uBlock Origin for ad blocking and content filtering. Check it out and see how it works for you. Our privacy policy is a business decision, not my own 🙂

  • Nick Coffman

    Very good to hear

  • Mason

    Nick, a few things that are interesting about this site, since your articles piqued me, I ran AVAST web security against it, what I found:
    It hooks into Disqus (which makes sense)
    Potential hook into Facebook
    Potential hook into Pinterest
    Google Adsense
    Google Analytics
    Some Ad tracking
    Had a heck of a time posting while blocking various things, pretty much had to allow it all, except Pinterest.