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Privacy is a major concern these days because so much of who you are is now kept in digital form, and then spread all over the world because of internet access. So even though so much more is convenient and available for you, without the right security measures, all of that information is available to other people as well who get access.

So, a big solution to that problem is to make sure that your digital presence is encrypted as much as possible, and you can do that by encrypting your email, your passwords, your financial data, your phone messages, and by protecting your mobile data as well.

Encrypting Your Email

Though most people don’t think that a majority of their email is any kind of a security risk, there are still times when you communicate when privacy is necessary. Sending medical data, financial data, or even relationship talk doesn’t always need to be publicly searchable or readable. So, to that end, consider using an e-mail encryption program that does the hard work for you, without you even having to think about it, so that all of that information is sent entirely privately.

Encrypting Your Passwords

Passwords are the keys to your most personal and most important data, so it’s no surprise that the best password managers are the ones that encrypt those passwords locally so that, even though you only need your one master password, the rest of them are safely locked away in a format that hackers can’t get to. That is one of the best safety features that you can put in place on your home computers.

Encrypting Your Financial Data

Most of your financial data is going to be encrypted by your banks and credit card companies automatically. Since the very beginning of internet technology, financial institutions realized how important that kind of safety was, so they have been using military-grade encryption practices pretty much since people started being able to use electronic banking.

Encrypting Your Phone Messages

Phone messages can be a source of privacy issues as well. This is why certain phone apps give you the option to encrypt them. This means that any links, texts, photos, or attachments that you send are run through a system so that anything that’s intercepted can’t be read or looked at.

Protecting Your Mobile Data

And though it’s not necessarily encryption, protecting your data on your mobile devices falls into the same category of privacy and safety. You can set your devices up with a password, and if someone fails a certain number of times, all of your data will be erased, which means that no one can access it after a failed hack attempt.