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Data Privacy
Data Privacy Day was the 28th of January, and you
may have missed it, but it’s never too late to help These Technology Conferences take place four
you be more private online with some simple, but times a year, but for some of us, the February 8th
useful tips. So next time you go online try… conference falls on the day of our general meeting.
In order to attend the conferences, you will need to
download the Zoom app to your computer, tablet or
TIP 1—UPDATE YOUR BROWSER’S SETTING
phone. The session are 50 minutes with time for
Every browser can be customized to fit your needs, Q&A, and you must register through Eventbrite.
including for privacy: check our your setting to erase But all is not lost, these conferences are recorded
your browsing history, adjust permissions, and and posted on the APCUG website within a month or
more.
so after the conference date.
These conference run in two and some may overlap
TIP 2—USING A VPN one another.
Without a VPN, your IP address (and real-life loca- Track 1
tion) could be seen by anyone, and your browsing
could be spied on with you connect to unsecured 1:00 PM ET
networks.
TIP 3—CLEAN YOUR COOKIES The Browser – Your Most Important App
Hewie Poplock, APCUG Rep, Central Florida
Tracking cookies are probably following your step Computer Society & Sarasota Technology User
online and reporting your activates to third parties. Group; Chromebook Evangelist
The best way is solve this problem is to get some
advance anti-tracking technology. The computer program or app that we all use the
most is the browser. A browser, which is short for
JUST WHAT YOU SAID web browser, is a software application used to lo-
A computer user called tech sup cate, retrieve and display content on the World Wide
port and told him, what the prob Web or Internet. Hewie will describe some of the im-
lem was. “Okay,” the agent said. portant features of browsers and describe many im-
“I need you to right-click” portant settings used in most browsers. He will also
“All right, “replied the customer. talk about little add-on programs called extensions
After a brief pause, the agent said. “Did you get a pop-up for browsers, including where to find them, how to
menu? add them, and talk about some that he has found
“No.” invaluable.
“Then right-click again. Now do you see the pop-up
menu? 2:00 PM ET
“No.
Baffled, the agent said, “Okay. Can you tell me exactly What will 5G mean to you?
what you have done up to this point?” Ron Brown, Program Coordinator, Silver-
“Sure.” Said the customer. You told me to write Click and com Computer & Technology Club
a wrote Click.? (Continued on page 8)
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