What personal information is safe to share?

What personal information is safe to share?

The most sensitive information to protect includes your bank account numbers, social security number, pin numbers, credit card numbers, and passwords.

What information is safe to share on social media?

Never share intimate personal details including birthdates, phone numbers, addresses, schools or hometowns online, to minimize risks of crime, vandalism or identity theft. Never let others know when you’ll be away from your home, especially for any given length of time, e.g. while on vacation.

What should you never post online?

With that in mind, here is a list of things you should never post on social media:

• Profanity.
• Abusive Content.
• “Adult” Content.
• Illegal Content.
• Offensive Content.
• Negative opinions about your job / employer / boss / professor.
• Drug related content.
• Poor grammar.

What information should be private?

What type of information should you protect?

• Names: Your full name, your maiden name, and your mother’s maiden name.
• Personal ID numbers: Your social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, patient ID number, taxpayer ID number, credit account number, or financial account number.

What information is not safe to share online?

Sharing sensitive information such as your address, phone number, family members’ names, car information, passwords, work history, credit status, social security numbers, birth date, school names, passport information, driver’s license numbers, insurance policy numbers, loan numbers, credit/ debit card numbers, PIN …

What to avoid posting on social media?

Avoid these post types in your approach.

• Overly promotional content.
• Political or religious content.
• Irrelevant viral posts.
• Negative or derogatory content.
• Posts with spelling or grammatical errors.
• Brand-inconsistent content.
• The same message across social networks.
• Unaccredited content.

Are there any rules for posting on the Internet?

Still, these days, most of us want to and do post online. So, here at Scambusters, we’ve put together our 10 Rules to make online posting safer. First, Golden Rule #1. Never post anything — words, pictures, videos, links, emails, blogs, comments and tweets — that you’re not happy for the whole wide world to view.

What are the dangers of posting on the Internet?

But your online posting also comes with a hidden “accessory” — the risk of identity theft or even physical crime. For this week’s issue, we’ve compiled a Top 10 list of rules and actions you can take to cut the risk of becoming a crime victim from online posting.

What’s the best way to keep your information private?

The easiest way to keep your information private is to NOT post it. Don’t post your full birthdate, address, or phone numbers online. Don’t hesitate to ask friends to remove embarrassing or sensitive information about you from their posts, either. You can NEVER assume the information you post online is private.

Is the information you post on social networking sites private?

You can NEVER assume the information you post online is private. Use privacy settings. Most social networking sites provide settings that let you restrict public access to your profile, such as allowing only your friends to view it.