Stay Thankful, Stay Safe: Protect Your Family’s Privacy This Holiday Season
Stay Thankful, Stay Safe: Protect Your Family’s Privacy This Holiday Season – This November, protecting your privacy is one of the best gifts you can give yourself and your loved ones.
November is a time to reflect, celebrate, and give thanks. It’s also one of the busiest months for scammers. As most families shop online, travel, and share personal information online, cybercriminals have a chance to turn the season of gratitude into their season of opportunity.
This November, protecting your privacy is one of the best gifts you can give yourself and your loved ones.
Between online deals, digital receipts, and endless shipping notifications, your personal data travels farther and faster during the holidays than it already does each day. Every single transaction, login, and email click provides identity thieves a chance to strike. Now is the time to be grateful and cautious about modern technologies by reviewing how and where your personal information is being shared.
You can start by using strong, unique passwords to stay thankful for every account and also enabling two-factor authentication whenever possible to thwart thieves in their path. You should also be wary of holiday “flash sales” and emails that ask for personal or payment details. If there is anything that looks too good to be true, it probably is.
And it’s not just digital scams – piles of old bills, credit card offers, or medical statements and other papers lying around can also find their way into the trash and the hands of identity thieves. Before you toss anything containing personal or financial data, shred it. And not by just ripping the papers up or crossing out the information with a marker. Professional paper shredding is the simplest, most reliable way to prevent your information from being reconstructed or stolen.
At Legal Shred, we believe peace of mind should last all year, not just during the holidays. Our secure document destruction services help households and businesses to stay protected from data breaches and identity theft.
This November, stay thankful, take a moment to appreciate the value of privacy and take action to protect it. From your online habits to your physical paper trail, a few simple steps can keep your family’s information safe through the holidays and beyond.
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