Privacy and anonymity with online pseudonyms

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Privacy and anonymity with online pseudonyms

Published 6/2024
Created by Saint Olive Tree Ltd
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 36 Lectures ( 4h 27m ) | Size: 1.2 GB


Learn how to protect your personal information during your internet adventures!

What you'll learn:
Learn the importance of online privacy and anonymity
Discover the different actors which may obtain your personal information
Get familiar with the ways - good or harming - your personal information can be used
Learn about online pseudonyms - a practical approach to protecting your privacy and anonymity online
Understand the benefits, downsides, and tradeoffs of online pseudonyms in various scenarios

Requirements:
Basic understanding of how the internet works
Experience with website, services like email, social media
Interest in protecting the information you expose to the internet

Description:
Privacy and anonymity with online pseudonyms is for every day internet users, who want to regain control over the personal information they expose online. The course is centred around the concept of online pseudonyms. They are an increasingly popular approach to achieving privacy and anonymity, while also improving your security. Their main goal is to create a fictitious persona, safeguarding your real self from the online world.You will discover the various actors, benevolent or malicious, who want to put their hands on your data. How they get it, and most importantly - what they do with it. As you will see, there are multiple ways, good or harming, it can be used. We will discuss the ways online pseudonyms affect these actors. Although online pseudonyms are a potent tool, they are not a magic solution to all problems. One of the big goals of the course is to make an objective estimation of their benefits and downsides in every specific situation.In the second section of the course, you will learn how to create and maintain online pseudonyms. As a set of elements, which combined together create the pseudonym. In other words, the information of the fictitious identity you present to the internet and all actors in it.Fictitious name, date of birth, pictureVarious approaches to obfuscated emailsVirtual phone numbers and payment methodsVirtual mailing addressesOther techniques to enhance your anonymity and privacy

Who this course is for:
Beginner and experienced internet users who are interested in learning how to protect their online privacy and anonymity

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