Privacy Policy on Internet Safety
If you think your computer activities are being monitored, they probably are. Abusive people are often controlling and want to know your every move. You don’t need to be a computer programmer or have special skills to monitor someone’s computer and Internet activities – anyone can do it and there are many ways to monitor with programs like Spyware, keystroke logger, and hacking tools. So be alert!
If you are in danger, please try to use a safer computer that someone abusive does not have direct or remote (hacking) access to.
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- If u are being monitored, it may be dangerous to change your computer behaviors such as suddenly deleting your entire Internet history if that is not your regular habit. It is not possible to delete or clear all these “footprints"
- If you think you may be monitored on your home computer, be careful how u use your computer since an abuser might become suspicious. You may want to keep using the monitored computer for normal activities but a different safer computer for other things.
- Email and Instant/Text Messaging (IM) are not safe or confidential ways to talk to someone about the danger or abuse in your life. If possible, please call a hotline instead. If u use email or IM, please use a safer computer and an account your abuser does not know about.
- Computers can store a lot of private information about what u look at via the Internet, the emails and instant messages you send, internet-based phone calls you make, web-based purchase, and many other activities. It might be safer to use a computer in a public library, at a trusted friend’s house, or an Internet Café.
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