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Protect your data from scammers by decluttering your devices

The video underscores the significance of decluttering and securing digital devices, offering practical steps, including organizing accounts, decluttering photos, managing emails wisely, and prioritizing password security for a more efficient and secure digital experience.

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The video emphasizes the importance of decluttering and securing digital devices. The NBC News senior consumer investigative correspondent, Vicky Nguyen, provides practical steps to organize and protect devices. The first step involves taking stock of all devices and prioritizing accounts, such as photo, financial, and email accounts. Vicky Nguyen suggests decluttering photos and messages regularly, emphasizing the impact on device speed. Regarding emails, she advises organizing by size, prioritizing messages, and unsubscribing from unnecessary emails. The video also addresses password security, warning against using easily guessable passwords and encouraging users to avoid recycling them. The importance of unsubscribing wisely and handling spam emails is highlighted. Finally, Vicky Nguyen discusses common mistakes in password creation, stressing the need for unique and secure combinations.

Vocabulary:

• To declutter: To clean up and organize by removing unnecessary things.

• A threat: Something dangerous or harmful that can cause damage.

• Daunting: Intimidating or appearing difficult.

• Overwhelming: Having a strong and powerful effect, often making it difficult to cope.

• Through: one side and out of the other side, or from one end to the other.

• Mindlessly: Doing something without paying attention or thought.

• Statement: An expression of fact or opinion, often in a clear and direct manner.

• Purging: getting rid of things that are no longer needed.

• To unsuscribe: to cancel a subscription, especially for emails or services.

• Inadvertently: Unintentionally or accidentally, without realizing it.

• Sketchy: Suspicious or not trustworthy, often associated with dubious or unclear intentions.

• Scourge: Something causing widespread suffering or harm, like a curse or plague.

• Survey (noun): A method of collecting opinions from a group of people to analyse trends or characteristics.

Source: TODAY YouTube channel.

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