How To Change Privacy And Online Safety Settings On Microsoft

Online safety tips

Parents and policy makers can help young adults pay attention to their online reputation and take steps to ensure a positive persona – personally and professionally.

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Follow the Council for Digital Good

This plan offers teens a platform to share their views on online safety topics that affect them. Members work with Microsoft to help create a safer, kinder, and more empathetic digital earth.

Learn about the 2022 Council

The Digital Civility Claiming

Microsoft encourages everyone to accept the challenge to help make the internet a safer place. Our 5th Digital Civility Index showed digital interactions and responses to online risks are improving effectually the world.

Learn how to take the challenge

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Create your own council

Notice out more about Microsoft's Council for Digital Good – how participating teens helped grow positive online interactions and offered insights into technology use – and how you can build a youth council for your business.

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Reputation Relationships Privacy Money

Reputation

Anything you post tin can become part of your online reputation and your online brand for the remainder of your digital life. Call back the net is permanent, vast, and always listening. Any i of your selfies could show upward at your first job interview.

Could this injure me or others?

It is difficult to know how others will interpret or react to your post. What yous post might touch on others directly or indirectly.

Would I share this with my parents or family?

Yous never know who reads what you mail service. Imagine how your parents or family unit would react if they read your post.

Could this limit opportunities for my future?

It is common for schools, volunteer programs, and hiring managers to review your digital footprint. Be thoughtful about what you post online.

16,300 years

Estimated time lost while repairing damage to online personal reputations in 2022
$iv.6 billion

Estimated corporeality lost worldwide due to damaged professional reputations
Less than 20%

Percentage of respondents who accept taken active steps to edit or remove online information that might impact their reputations
Only 31%

Percentage of those surveyed who take time to protect their reputations online
$one.iv billion

Estimated worldwide fiscal losses while repairing online damage to personal reputations in 2022

What potential online risks business organization y'all the most?

28% Fiscal loss
17% Finding spyware, adware, or other tracking software on my devices
12% Loss of personal privacy
10% Online information damaging relationships with family/friends
8% Loss of task due to tarnished online reputation
9% Poor performance of computer
six% Existence bullied or harassed online
6% Information loss
five% I exercise not have concerns most going online

What is the greatest do good the internet has brought to your life?

40% Learning
xvi% Socializing
14% Exploring
14% Amusement
7% Conducting business
9% Other

Social media cliche

Answer multiple selection questions almost your social media habits to learn which cliché you are.

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Pin Head

Using location services? Limit who knows your whereabouts, pay attention to where/when you bank check in, and link to social media with care.

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Momarazzi

Be mindful almost what y'all post online well-nigh your kids – of any historic period. You might exist putting them at take a chance past revealing their current location, age, school, etc.

Team Emo

Don't postal service anything you lot'd just say to a close friend. Whether you're happy, pitiful, angry, or have coin worries, confiding broadly could increase your online risks of being bullied, targeted for scams, or worse.

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Hashtag Hyper

Be selective about where and when y'all apply hashtags to avoid oversharing your location. Keep sensitive details to yourself that could exist used to defraud; impersonate; or find your abode address, phone and account numbers, birthdate, or photos without your knowing it.

Selfie Centered

Before you mail any pictures, videos, or comments online, inquire yourself: Could this tarnish my reputation? Think earlier you post; information technology will be there a long, long fourth dimension.