{"id":3381,"date":"2025-04-23T14:46:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:46:52","slug":"protect-your-privates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=3381","title":{"rendered":"Protect Your Privates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/us\/reality-tv\/our-privacy-disintegrating-when-shark-tank-s-mark-cuban-claimed-social-media-posts-used-build-psychological-profiles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mark Cuban<\/a> has said that internet privacy is something we all should be concerned about and, of course, he plans to commodify it by starting privacy services for consumers. I have a Google search that returns anything that is posted using my name online and I get a report monthly letting me know what&#8217;s out there. The other Scott Ballew in Austin is quite active online, so I get a lot of his information. His presence diminishes mine, which I am totally fine with. I want it to be hard to get to any personal information about me.  <br \/><br \/>Take some time to listen to the advice in the following videos to learn how to tighten up your online security.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tidy up your tech: How to protect your digital data and privacy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l0kvYuAnJNQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3 online safety tips that might surprise you\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U0PEs5wwpb4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Cuban has said that internet privacy is something we all should be concerned about and, of course, he plans to commodify it by starting privacy services for consumers. I have a Google search that returns anything that is posted using my name online and I get a report monthly letting me know what&#8217;s out there. The other Scott Ballew in Austin is quite active online, so I get a lot of his information. His presence diminishes mine, which I am totally fine with. I want it to be hard to get to any personal information about me. Take some time to listen to the advice in the following videos to learn how to tighten up your online security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3383,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions\/3383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}