While many of us are comfortable in giving away certain data of ours like email addresses, the same doesn’t hold true for our sensitive information. With that in mind, we carefully choose which companies to share our data with, will my data be responsibly handled or sit insecurely in some third-party server?
Yet, despite the precautions we may take, there are times that certain websites just happen to fool us. They appear legitimate, claim to have a strict privacy policy (hello boilerplate users) but end up sharing your data with third parties regardless.
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Luckily, to help you not be fooled in such cases, Instart – a cloud security company – has released a new Chrome extension by the name of Privacy Alert.
The plugin allows you to check the “data security rating” of every site which basically indicates whether it is a good idea to share your data with the site in question or not.
Privacy Alert lets you know if hackers could potentially steal the information you type into a web form or save within a cookie. For example, if you visit a financial site, like your online banking app, and type in your username and password, the plugin will show if third-parties could potentially also view those login credentials, the company ..
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