Would you be able to tell how many apps have access to your personal data through sites and social platforms? And what exactly do you know about the followers of your various social networks?
After the discovery of a huge security flaw called HeartBleed threatening the security of many websites, but especially the access to our personal data, you have probably been forced to change all your passwords or to clean up your applications and social networks.
Through this blog article, I will remind you of the different available and free applications that will allow you to assist you in managing your data on the web but also to put your social presence in order.
Maybe you already know some of them.
Password Box : MANAGE YOUR PASSWORDS EASILY AND SECURELY!
We all have many accounts to our credit, often with different passwords, which are sometimes difficult to manage. So what can we do to simplify our lives and avoid oversights? Password box, a Quebec application recently named best mobile application 2014 at the (CES) Consumer Electronics Show, gives us the solution.
The application offers a simple and secure service for managing all of your passwords. These are instantly saved and synchronized in all your browsers, on all your computers and mobile devices and therefore accessible wherever you are.
Password box also offers you other rather interesting features:
– The application allows you to share your data without having to give the password
– A “digital inheritance” feature gives you the ability to entrust your passwords to anyone you choose, in case something happens to you.
- You can also securely store documents, notes, important information that you want to remember.
– Password box also offers you to generate your master password.
The app is available for free on Windows and Mac, as well as iOS or Android smartphones.
Mypermission : PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND CLEAN UP YOUR UNNECESSARY APP SOCIAL PLATFORMS
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MyPermissions is an application that allows you to protect and control your personal information by monitoring all the applications connected through your sites and your social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Dropbox and more.
It is a very simple tool to use. You just need to click on the tab of the social network you want to check. Mypermissions scans the app and informs you how many apps have access to your data. You then have the option to approve or block access to applications.
Just unfollow : I FOLLOW YOU, HE FOLLOWS ME, WE DON'T FOLLOW OURSELVES ANYMORE
How many new followers are following me? How many don't follow me anymore? How many of my followings are unfollowing me? It is difficult to have access to all this data in real time! Thanks to an alert system, Just unfollow will reveal everything to you!
Indeed, the application allows you to know which are the new people who follow you or no longer follow you. Or the one you follow but who doesn't want to follow you. Even more interesting, Justunfollow identifies inactive accounts that you follow and then offers to delete them.
UNCIRCLE: TARGET YOUR INACTIVE CONTACTS
Thanks to this application you can easily target inactive Google + users, present in your circles. You will be able to uncover them and delete them. Note that the application works with the Google Chrome browser.
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