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Silver Tips - safe online!

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Silver Tips!

The service portal "Silver Tips – Stay Safe Online!" provides well-founded, understandable, and ad-free answers to many questions relating to the internet, consumer protection, and data security. Here, older internet users can obtain specific information, suggestions, and tips from experts that make everyday use of the internet, smartphones, and other devices safer and help to overcome reservations.

The service portal is a project of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Media Competence Forum Southwest (MKFS) foundation, in collaboration with many other partners.

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Silver Tips is a contribution by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and its partners to the theme years "People of Science."

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