Monday, June 23, 2008

How to safeguard OUR personal and financial data


Nowadays, we always exposed our personal information, names, addresses, phone numbers, and identity card number, bank and credit card number and other financial data to other parties such as government institutes, e-commerce companies, website operator, financial institutions and friends by accidentally or as require by those parties. Sometimes, we may wonder to know, how can make our personal and financial data more secure and being protected by not reveal it to that irrelevant party and prevent financial data from being used illegally by third parties. These are some advices are given to individual concerning how to prevent personal and financial data.
Firstly we should always keep our receipts, bank account statements, credit-card bills, or even addressed direct mail (DM). However, if people want to throw away these documents as trash, they should shred them first. Secondly, we have to pay attention and alert to regular mail such as monthly bills or bank account statements if there is any delay of deliver, to find out whether they have been stolen or any other reasons. Next, do not reveal any personal information or particularly passwords to anyone. After using any of the Financial Data Center or member services, must remember to log out properly before leaving the Financial Data Center.
Meanwhile, we also have to keep our card close to us. Whether you are out shopping or eating out, watch how clerks handle your card. Then take your receipt with you and never throw it away in a public place and should pay attention when using an ATM and keep your eyes peeled for anyone who seems a little too interested in your transactions. Use your free hand to shield the keypad when entering your PIN. Besides that, banker can add on fingerprint scanning on ATM machine. Some more, keep credit cards to a minimum. It only keeps the ones you actually use and destroy any that you no longer use by shredding them.
We should aware that personal and financial data should be threat as private and confidential in anyway and anytime. By using proper ways to protect our personal and financial data are same as protect our own personal safety. All of us should be concern about this issue and must takes care our own right.

Further information can refer below website:
http://ecommerze.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/how-to-safeguard-personal-financial-data/ 17 Jun 2008
http://qlignrinayi.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-safeguard-our-personal-and.html%2021%20June%202008
http://amazingcommerce.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/how-to-safeguard-our-personal-and-financial-data/ 18 June 2008

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