Simple Privacy Tricks Everyone Should Use

1. Use Temporary Credit Cards to Avoid Repeat Billing

Whether you want to add some extra security to your online purchases, or you just want to save yourself from overbilling, temporary credit cards are a great help. Most card issuers have them (usually called "safe shopping" cards or "gift cards"), and you can choose the card's spending limit, expiration date, and more. That way, you can make sure that automatic billing doesn't kick in unless you absolutely want it too (after all, it can't charge you if there's no money left on the card). Plus, if anyone ever gets a hold of your account information, all they have is a gift card with a spending limit, not your real credit card.

You can also ask your bank to issue you a “Cyber Tarjeta” Card. Might be called something else in another bank but they will know what you want if you tell them a card to use for buying online

This is used just as you would your Visa card online but you choose the amount

of money to put on the card. If anything should happen to your card details only the amount that is on the card would be lost. 

2. Leave Your Home Address Off Your GPS Unit

If you aren't into everyone knowing where you are at all times, you'll want to make sure any given app doesn't share your location. Usually this is pretty simple. (turn off Facebook Places), etc. But don't ignore the obvious, either: the "Home" button on your smartphone or GPS unit, for example, could lead any car thief right to your home. Instead, use a nearby landmark as your "home" location—that way, your navigation unit will always lead you close enough so you know how to get back, but won't lead any ne'er-do-wells right to your front door.

3. Use a Fake Birthday for Web Signups

Most of the information web sites ask for when you sign up is unnecessary, and sometimes even unsafe. Identity thieves can do quite a bit of damage with just your birthday. Make sure you don't post both the date and the year of your birthday on anything public like Facebook, and if you're required to use it for a web signup, just use an un-birthday to keep their demographic data in place, but without giving out all your personal information.

When I register online for websites that require a birthday, I select a date other than my actual birthday. I reuse this date for all websites where the date is required only for security or demographic information (anything associated with credit report excluded: banks, utilities, etc.). To make it easy to remember [your un-birthday], retain [your birth] year, but change the month or day. That way the demographic value and security control retain validity while you protect your true birth date in the event the website is hacked. Ex: With an actual birth date of February 29, 1990, I would select as my "official" un-birthday April 15, 1990 (selected in this example because it's Tax Day in the US, easy to remember).

4. Use HTTPS Whenever Possible

HTTPS is a super easy way to stay safe on the net, and a lot of services will use it by default with a quick settings tweak. You can enable it on Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail by just ticking a checkbox. For everything else, there's the HTTPS Everywhere extension, which will use HTTPS on any site that allows it. https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

5. Use AdBlock, to Block Ads

You may have heard a lot about extensions like AdBlock Plus,to block out ads.  However, AdBlock extensions are great privacy tools, even if you aren't blocking ads. They can keep you protected from known malware spreaders. All you need is a few simple filters in place to put another brick on the privacy wall.

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6. Use Disposable Email Addresses to Avoid Spam

One of the best ways to wipe out spam in your inbox is to use a disposable email address for the internet's sketchier sites. If you visit a site that requires an email address but that you don't fully trust, use a service called 10 Minute Mail. You can use a quick temporary email address to get the necessary "confirmation email" and ignore any future spam that might come your way.

http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html

7. Create Secure, Easy-to-Remember Passwords

While the most secure password is one you might not remember, there are a lot of tricks to creating easy, memorable passwords without making them easy to guess.

Within a password:

Do not use words in the dictionary.

Do not use the same password for all accounts

Use caps and small letters

Use numbers

Use symbols * ! etc.

Create a good solid password then add the initials of the account.

Therefore you can use the base password for all accounts but the passwords

Will be different because of the added initials.

8. Keep Your Security Questions as Private as Your Passwords

Strong passwords are important, but they're utterly useless if your "security question" is something anyone can answer. You can be clever and for "What's your mother's maiden name?" answer with the favorite food she made for you.  Better still make up your own security question instead of using the given ones.

9. Enable 2-step verification on Google

 Here are some ways to improve your security when using Google products:

1. Enable 2-step verification. This Gmail feature uses a phone and second password on sign-in, and it protected some accounts from this attack.

2. Use a strong password for Google that you do not use on any other site.
3. Enter your password only into a proper sign-in prompt on a https://www.google.com domain. We will never ask you to email your password or enter it into a form that appears within an email message
4. Check your Gmail settings for suspicious forwarding addresses (“Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab, Fig. 1) or delegated accounts (“Accounts” tab, Fig. 2).

Click link below to install  2 step verification on your account.

https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount