"We share information everywhere as we want to gather information from everywhere"
Many of us unknowingly share personal identifiable informationalso known as PII to those who are not concern with information
security or there is chance of data leakage or data theft.
Data and personal information is
critical to if break, crack and reset, unlock your secret reveal for banking,
financial and assets. Safeguard your information from hacking, information leakage. PII protection is part of information security.
What are PII, examples:
1. Name, address, SSN, date of birth, phone number, email
id
2. Financial information, location, your parents name
3. Biometric data – fingerprint, retina info
4. Medical, education, employment records
Be careful and conscious while
sharing data to agencies, consider below area where we generally share without
thinking it and we attest also, few examples are.
1. Being candidate for interview – full names with
address
2. In resume or CV also put date of birth as (mm/yyyy)
that is enough – like January 1991.
3. Opening bank account
4. Mall, petrol pump and restaurant visit for better
deal or for some prizes
5. Education class form filling
6. Online information sharing on open forum etc.
7. Sharing information for driving license, passport
number, Aadhar number, PAN number, social security number (SSN)
How to protect PII
Share information in smarter ways
- Always put purpose and recipients name while sharing (like for Citibank, for account opening, after that you only sign on document) – on every single paper.
- Always put expiry date while signing documents – valid upto 05/July/2020
- Keep date and time and purpose inside of document (not outside, at blank space), protect from to be scanned and cropped.
- Cross sign documents so signature prevail on inside area of document.
- Don’t reveal mother’s name into unwanted forms it will help hackers to crack your OTP, banking password reset etc.
- Never disclose or share CVV number for debit and credit cards.
- Limit yourself on social media with PII information.
- Don’t allow your phone to read SMS automatically, malicious apps will read OTP as well.
- Don’t share sensitive information to young children;
they may disclosure it.
Here I suggest that “Not sharing, unfolding is your PII protection; Be Smart, Be Safe.
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