Big Brother, hackers — it seems someone is always spying.

You might not be able to keep them from watching, but you can make it harder for them to see.

Online snooping is an omnipresent fact of modern life — as Glenn Beck described it Tuesday evening, American society resembles a "modern-day panopticon" in which the government can track everything its citizens do — but a few key steps could help make it harder to track your activities online.

Watch Business Insider's four-step guide to online privacy below:

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