Internet Privacy

I don't know if you are like me, but I am a pretty oblivious person.  I like to live in my happy little bubble and think of the world as a pretty happy place.  When it comes to your internet privacy though, it really isn't the case.  The government really can track everything that you do online which is a really scary thought.  Also, if the government can do it, there are plenty of brainy hackers out there who can have access to what you do too.  This interesting article published by the Huffington post helps to show you how you can protect yourself and keep your internet searches and such private.  One of the ones that I found to be extremely interesting was DuckDuckGo.  Whenever you use a search engine like Google, the search engine saves your searches and could give information out to people who you don't want seeing it.  DuckDuckGo is a search engine that vows that they will not collect any information about you or the things that you search.  In the article it helps to show you how you can make this DuckDuckGo your default search engine.  Another thing that you can do to help keep your searching's private is by downloading the Tor browser.  Chrome, Safari, and Firefox are browsers that track your cookies, IP addresses, and a whole lot more.  Tor is used to help you go online and communicate discretely and privately, without you being tracked, censored, or watched.  It is also shown in the article how you can go online and download it to whichever operating system you have like Mac, Windows, or Linux.  I think that this article brings to light how much we actually are watched and monitored without really even realizing it, and the things that were shown are great precautions to keep things about your private.