I am afraid that my online followers will show up at my door… what can I do to protect my identity?
Being an online creator is scary sometimes. How can I protect my privacy and stay safe from harassment, doxxing, or online stalkers?
Loss of privacy can lead to emotional stress, physical threats, and interruptions to your creative work. It could also jeopardize your safety and that of your loved ones.
Why Prevention Matters: Anonymity allows you to maintain control over your personal life while sharing your talents with the world. Protecting your identity ensures a safer and more productive online experience.
The Cybersecurity4biz Solution: We provide guidance on using pseudonyms, securing your accounts, and masking your online activities to keep your real identity private. With our support, you can focus on your craft without fear of exposure.
Dangers That Reveal Your Identity
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Location
Your location can be given away in your geotagged pics, payment apps, browser cookies, metadata from attachments, and other hidden digital footprints. Almost all devices have GPS built in and enabled. Your apps are always tracking you.
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Social Media
Your social media accounts all save personally identifiable information on you that can be found by stalkers and hackers. Free apps always collect and sell your personal information to third parties. Your browser tracks and saves your location.
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Background and Environment
Your background and environment (landscape and decorations; identifiable tattoos, piercings, birthmarks, rainbow colored-hair) around you give hints to the stalker of your location and identity.
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Doxxing
The act of revealing identifying information about someone online (their real name, address, workplace, phone number, or other identifying information) is known as doxing (also spelled “doxxing”). The word evolved from the phrase “dropping dox”. More than 90% of the doxed files included the victim's address, 61% included a phone number, and 53% included an email. There are also plenty of other bad actors out there, from “Crazy Stalker Ex’s” to “Hater’s”, for you the result is the same… DRAMA!
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Intellectual Property Theft
OnlyFans and Patreon videos are leaked and viewable all over the internet. Your Identity and your Intellectual Property are being violated. Copies of content you made and sell for profit are being given away for free on other websites. This is totally preventable. Copyright protection has been extended to websites and other online content. Therefore, any original content published on the Web is protected by copyright law. However, you need to take steps to protect it.
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Content Hosting Websites are Stealing From You
OnlyFans is owned by a Radvinsky with a history of lawsuits and allegations of spam, theft, fraud, and drug dealing. He also operated MyFreeCam. Microsoft and Amazon sued Radvinsky and multiple companies under his control for sending “millions of illegal and deceptive e-mail messages to Hotmail customers, that were falsely labeled as coming from Amazon.com.” He owns the website with leaked porn account passwords to his own porn websites!
Keep your secrets, well, secret.
Why do you have door locks inside your house? We are not referring to the front door, we mean locks on bedrooms and bathrooms… it is not because you do not trust others in your family, it is because sometimes you want privacy or just not to be disturbed. Think of data the same way, you have information that you just want to stay private or not be disturbed by others. You need cybersecurity!