The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy: Practical Tips for Staying Safe Online

The whirlwind of social media, online dating, and mobile apps can make life a dream—or a nightmare. For every trustworthy website, there are countless jerks, bullies, and scam artists who want to harvest your personal information for their own purposes. But you can fight back, right now.

In The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy, award-winning author and investigative journalist Violet Blue shows you how women are targeted online and how to keep yourself safe. Blue’s practical, user-friendly advice will teach you how to:

• Delete personal content from websites
• Use website and browser privacy controls effectively
• Recover from and prevent identity theft
• Figure out where the law protects you–and where it doesn’t
• Set up safe online profiles
• Remove yourself from people-finder websites

Even if your privacy has already been compromised, don’t panic. It’s not too late to take control. Let The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy help you cut through the confusion and start protecting your online life.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Get Smart
Chapter 2. But It’s Just My Phone Number
Chapter 3. You Got Hacked
Chapter 4. Female Trouble
Chapter 5. Identity Theft
Chapter 6. How to Share
Chapter 7. People-Search Websites
Chapter 8. Dating and Sexytime
Chapter 9. Ninja Tricks
Chapter 10. I Hate Passwords