Privacy is an increasingly rare commodity these days. Our smart phones, laptops and computers are always connected to the internet. They share our private stuff with the rest of the internet users. Your bed room photos, your classified messages, your emails are all finding their ways to the internet. 

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It is, therefore, necessary to take precautions before you are under siege over this concern.

This article outlines 7 measures one can take, or consider, to secure his or her privacy. These are:

Do not fill out your social media profile

One way of compromising with one's security is social Media. Filling out every gap on social media, for example on Facebook. People end up giving every bit of their information, including of their parents, where they come from, the year they were born, among other sensitive information. Such information will be exposed to the rest of the world. 

Turn on private browsing 

It is recommended to visit the internet in incognito mode. Where your browser cannot save what you are visiting, on the internet

Pay for stuff with cash

Avoid paying everything with credit cards. Some credit card companies are selling your purchase data to advertisers. After sometimes one starts receiving alerts because his or her information was gotten from credit card provider

Lie when setting up password security questions

Yes, do not always tell the truth to such questions. What is your mother's maiden name? Which school did you attend to? Telling the truth to this question is one way of exposing your privacy to the rest of the world, the INTERNET

Lock down your machines

Your information can remain private when it is specifically made available for you alone. It is necessary to set passwords to computers, phones and name them so that it becomes a beat hard for one to access the privacy in these machines

Set up a Google alert for your name

This will enable one to receive all alerts from Google when his or her name, once it is searched for, on the web. Remember Google knows everything

You can set a Google alert here http:///www.google.com/alerts