4 Tips for Spring Cleaning Your Digital Life

Spring is in the air (if you are in the northern hemisphere) and is traditionally a time to clean every nook and get rid of excess stuff in your house. But it is also a good time to clean your digital life. Just like home, your digital life has a good cleaning from time to time, but sometimes it's like seem a daunting task, so here are some tips for getting started.

First, start by emptying the Recycle Bin on the computer and cache files, and temporary browser cookies, both to delete release on the hard disk, follow these tips to clean your digital presence.

1. Clean the applications and files. Are some of your dust collection? Has files from high school (and that was years ago, I graduated)? If you do not this, you should remove. Applications inherited Sure, obsolete and unused programs and files is more space and storage devices, with the things you use to fill.
2. Back up your data. Our devices are a family treasure of memories, such as images and videos, and typically also important documents such as tax and other sensitive information. None of us want to lose any of these items, so it's important that you do your work and often. Back both cloud storage service and an external hard drive, just in case
3. Check the privacy policy. Your accounts as private as you want them? Take the time to review the privacy settings for your accounts and applications in order to understand how they use their data. It is important for the social networking accounts so you can choose what you want or do not want to share online. For a good resource on the privacy of social media, read this article. It is also important for applications that many applications have access to information that is not necessary. In fact, McAfee Labs ™ found that 80% of Android applications that lets you track and collect information on more personal time without our knowledge.
4. Change your passwords. It is always a good idea to change your passwords regularly and there is no better time in a digital spring cleaning. To require the overhead of managing a large number of user names and passwords to manage your digital world use True Key ™ with Intel security . Create the application and remember complex real key for each of their locations, making them suitable for all devices, make sure only you can access them easily and securely over factors that are unique to passwords and automatically connect when you return to to visit their websites and applications in order not to have.

So before you think of yourself, make your spring cleaning, make sure you finish the last part of spring cleaning with these tips and you'll be well on your way to clean your digital life.

Robert Siciliano is an expert in online security Security Intel . He is the author of 99 things you need to know before you want your phone has been hacked!   Revelations .

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