Basic Guide
Nowadays protecting your information is becoming more challenging. If you are paying attention to the news recently, Facebook is facing problems because Cambridge Analytica obtained improperly personal information from approximately 87 million Facebook users, companies like Best buy, Delta, Under Armor, Panera Bread, Forever 21 and Gamestop between others had data breaches in April, regularly you can see many news like this on the media.
You need to take control of the information that you share on the Internet. This could be done by adopting some simple but powerful concepts that will protect you while you’re using social media, searching on the Internet or just opening emails. On this way, you could prevent be vulnerable to identity theft or fraud when you’re online.
These simplest ideas could help you control the information that you share on social media/Internet:
- Don’t share a full name, home address, relative names and/or current employer on a public profile.
- Regularly check the privacy settings on social media.
- Set profile as private.
- Do not use the same password for financial accounts and personal email.
- If you need to input any personal information please verify that the website is the original, PLEASE, check the address is not a variation of the original name. Example: www.mybank.com compared with my.bankd.com or mybank.site.com etc.
- Log out after doing any transaction on the Internet like a payment or shopping.
You are responsible for the information you share on the Internet with others. If you want to keep some information in secret you need to use the proper strategy or tools to protect it online. I encourage you to follow these simple practices to protect yourself online. I believe if we are conscious enough of the information that we are sharing this will help us to find the best solution.
Until next time…
Leo Martinez
www.smartzstudios.com
