I think the best advice for college students using the internet is to just be aware of the amount of privacy you have. I know there are many of us who think they are perfectly safe on the internet because their profiles are set as private, and they don’t post about where they are going to be and they only talk about personal issues on secure, private messages, and they don’t post their private photos onto the internet. Issues with their privacy can be found quite quickly with a little bit of research. The article “The 5 Biggest Online Privacy Threats of 2013”, for examples, tells us that your phone stores the location each picture is taken on, and unless you turn this off or remove this information, anyone on the internet can get this information from the photos you post. Also, as we have seen recently with the big celebrity leak, even the data on your phone can be retrieved without access to your phone, as this information is stored in a cloud database. Emails and your messages on social media, as private as they seem, can be accessed by the NSA and if they see fit. While I know the average college student isn’t really doing anything on their email that would be of interest to the NSA, the fact that they have access shows that other people could gain access if they really wanted to. The article “5 Essential Privacy Tools for the Next Crypto War” is a great resource for college students as it gives simple, more secure encrypted alternatives for file sharing, emailing, and messaging services that you don’t need to be tech savvy or computer whizzes to use. These small steps could help all of us avoid embarrassing leaks of personal information or stealing of data from our computers.