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How to protect your data privacy: A digital media expert provides steps you can take and explains why you can’t go it alone

  • Written by Nathan Schneider, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
imageYou probably know you're being tracked online, but what can you do about it?Malte Mueller/fStop via Getty Images

Perfect safety is no more possible online than it is when driving on a crowded road with strangers or walking alone through a city at night. Like roads and cities, the internet’s dangers arise from choices society has made. To...

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