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Privacy and security threats lurk in these everyday choices

"We provide online service, app, and content providers with detailed information about our whereabouts, our thoughts, our feelings, our moods, and our life patterns."
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Individuals and businesses unknowingly expose themselves to security and privacy threats, as experts explain here.

“We can opt out of providing our information to content, app, and social media providers.”

Ari Trachtenberg, Gianluca Stringhini, and Ran Canetti of Boston University offer some best-practices for protecting yourself and those around you:

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