Avoid Christmas Internet Scams | Privacy Now TV

There's nothing like the holidays to bring out the best - and the worst - in people. The holiday season is rife with potential scams, but you don't have to fall for them. Here are a few Christmas scams and ways to avoid them.

In early November, 2010, global Internet users were made aware of a massive for-profit breach of privacy involving the sale of Facebook User ID numbers, or UIDs, to data brokers.Today we look at Facebook application security, and help you protect your privacy.

419 Scams are known by many names: Nigerian letter scams, the Spanish Prisoner scam, or the Russian confidence game. This episode we look at the 419 scam and give you tips to protect yourself from becoming another victim.

Email is the most prevalent form of communication on the planet; over 250 billion emails are sent every day, averaging over 3 million emails every second. Eighty percent of these emails are malicious, unwanted messages that can waste your time and cause real harm to your computer or smartphone. Here’s a guide to identifying them and what to do about them.

For the first time in human history it has become nearly impossible to outrun or outlive poor decisions and social faux pas.Your reputation is crucially important to many things: your employability, your social standing, and even relationships with friends and family. In this weeks episode we examine the three major elements to protecting your reputation online.

This week Kasia looks at security on mobile devices, and gives some tips on securing your iPhone, Android , and BlackBerry smartphones. From security settings and wi-fi to pins and passwords, we help you keep your smartphone secure.

This week we take a look at what happens to your personal information when you post it online.When you think of the flow of information on the Internet, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Speed? Ease of access? Up-to-the-minute news? The immediacy of being able to access what’s going on right now can be a dangerous thing; it fools us into thinking that information is about the here and now–but that’s only part of the story.

This week we take a different look at Facebook. How they - and other "free" social media sites - make money using your information.How do these sites manage to make money? The sheer scale of development costs and supporting a large user base is expensive. The one element that all of these services have in common is the uniform requirement of personal data; while this data is used to identify you, it’s also used as collateral to be sold to advertisers and other interested parties.

This week we look at public wi-fi hotspots, and assess their risk to your personal information. We show you the risks, and give you tips to protect your privacy and security.

We look at workplace privacy and answer the question of how much information does your boss have access to? Also, we give you some simple tips for protecting your privacy while surfing the web at work.www.privacynow.tv