A Contextual Approach Protecting Online Privacy, A Crucial Need

In the era of the global world, everyone thrives to share their personal life and credentials online through different sites. The Internet has become an essential use of our daily life in order to email, sharing of documents, research, bank transactions and even basic life activities on different social media mediums. Since the rapid evolution in the of technology is taking over the globe in last few decades in making human's life easier through easy and rapid actions, there is dire need to be sure of how much our credentials are safe with the parties that we are sharing the data. Internet frauds, cyber-attacks and third parties monitoring the data is the cause of serious concern of the first-hand user of the internet. The basic internet users do not even follow the basic safety precautions or are even unaware of the risk that the internet caring while sharing personal details. This paper suggests the basic internet users minimize the threats and risks that internet caries while sharing the data. Different tools and techniques are discussed in this study that can be used to protect the privacy of user from unauthorized, attackers and third-parties. It is the need of the hour to motivate and educate internet users to safe browsing and to enhance the internet user experience. This paper elaborates the maximum number of precautions the internet user can take to secure and enjoy safe browsing.