Protecting Your Personal Information and Privacy in a Connected with Choice Identity®

Controlling your digital identity has never been more critical.

Opt-out or limit use of data
Choose to limit how Choice Identity® processes your personal information. Your data privacy opt-out choices
include:
Opt out of the sale/sharing of my personal information
Opt out of cross-context behavioral advertising/targeted advertising
Opt out of automated decision-making/profiling
Limit the use of my sensitive personal information
When we provide personal information to third parties, we’re enabling them to offer relevant products for
consumers like you. If you opt out, the companies we partner with may no longer offer you personalized
experiences. We want you to have the opportunities that may benefit you. However, we fully support your right
to opt out and have developed a process for you to exercise this right.
You can submit a request online, by phone or through a one-time form:

Mitigating Risk on Social Platforms

The use of social networks is soaring as we look for ways to keep human connections alive, providing even more
opportunities for scammers to take advantage of you and potential security risks.

Social Media

When not handled correctly, social media use opens you and your family up to significant privacy risks. Failure to take proactive precautions can lead to cyberattacks, cyberbullying, job loss, and more.  

By taking simple steps to protect yourself and your family, you can enjoy social media safely. From helping you set up
proper controls to monitoring your family’s profiles for problematic posts, Choice Identity can help you navigate
potential privacy pitfalls and protect your identity.

Take Control of Your Social Media Footprint

Social media is an integral part of our daily routine, helping us connect and
build relationships. With over 1.66 billion social media users, almost everyone
relies on the myriad of social platforms from Facebook to Snapchat to
Instagram to communicate with their loved ones.

The use of social networks is soaring as we look for ways to keep
human connections alive, providing even more opportunities for
scammers to take advantage of. While we check out the latest funny meme, TikTok video, or news from our family and friends, we need to keep our personal information protected.

Too many people are oblivious to the privacy pitfalls and fail to take steps to protect their data, setting them up as easy targets to be profiled by advertisers, opening them up to a potential cyberattack, or, even worse, having their identity hijacked.

Think Privacy First

If you don’t activate the privacy protections on each platform, then
anybody can view your social media profile and read our personal
information. You also need to be aware of some of the creative tactics
that cybercriminals are deploying to entice you to re personal details
that they can profit from. So, how can you manage not just yours but your
entire family’s social media footprint and protect your data?

Don't Accept Every Request to Connect

Rather than gleefully clicking on every request from a new follower or third-party application, always take time to verify each invite. With friend requests, check and block fake accounts or people you don’t know well. Platforms like Facebook and Instagram are full of fake profiles, and those accounts can be a cybercriminal, a suspicious organization, or just a stranger who wants to monitor your activities. If you see any concerning behavior, you should report and block the account. Adopt the mantra that it’s always better to be safe than sorry

The same goes for third-party apps. Be very careful before accepting requests to link apps to any of your social accounts and make sure to regularly audit which are connected to protect yourself from data-harvesting software. There are multiple examples of this happening from surveillance concerns with WhatsApp to TikTok, which appears to be a messaging app that the New York Times identified as a mass surveillance tool!

Think Before You Share

Check your social media profiles and make sure that you are
not sharing personal information, including your address,
phone number, date of birth, and social security number. Your
close friends and family should know these as needed. Also,
those quirky polls that ask for random information are often
not so innocent and are a way to get you to disclose personal
data. So don’t make trackable information available to
everyone, including cybercriminals. Again, less is more when it
comes to your personal information on social channels.

4 Critical Areas for Assessing Threat

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4 Critical Areas

As you shift your life online, you must protect your privacy and reputation by securing your personal, financial and medical information. Rather than waiting for something to go wrong, you need to take an active role, assess possible threats and protect your digital identity. Choice Identity® wants to help you take control of your digital life so that you understand where the pitfalls lie and how you can protect yourself and your family.

Social Media

When not handled correctly, Social media use opens you and your family up to significant privacy risks. Failure to take proactive precautions can lead to cyberattacks, cyberbullying, job loss, and more.

Follow best practices for sharing personal information

Educate yourself on common social media scams

Set privacy controls correctly

Protect your reputation, think before you share

By taking simple steps to protect yourself and your family, you can enjoy social media safely. From helping
you set up proper controls to monitoring your family’s profiles for problematic posts, Choice IdentityⓇ can
help you navigate potential privacy pitfalls and protect your identity.

Smart Device

If you find the complex web of
security and privacy settings on
smart devices confusing, IDShield’s
team of experts and software
solutions can help you create a
robust defense.

Password protect all home networks

Change manufacturer default passwords

Keep software up to date with the latest security patches

Mute microphones and review your privacy settings

If you find the complex web of security and privacy settings on smart devices
confusing, Choice IdentityⓇ team of experts and software solutions can help you create
a robust defense.

Data Brokers

Data brokers track your online
activities and build detailed profiles on
you and your family. The brokers then
sell your information to governments,
companies and individuals who use it
to exploit you.

Consumer companies use it to target you with advertising.

Insurance companies use it to reject you or set your premiums.

Hiring managers use it to disqualify you for jobs. You can fight back.

Mute microphones and review your privacy settings

Choice Identity can get your personal information deleted from data brokers’ databases. Also, our system will monitor
data broker websites to make sure any new information is removed as soon as it surfaces.

Online Security

Cybercriminals are constantly coming up
with new schemes to
capitalize on our digital lives. Each new innovation platform or app brings with it a variety of activities
they can exploit.

Crooks can take over online accounts if you reuse passwords

68% of phishing attacks impersonate well-known brands

Email scams evolve; look out for suspicious subject lines

Be sure to share sensitive data securely and safely

Don’t wait for something to go wrong. Take proactive steps to set up an online security defense to
protect your password and internet browser privacy, your reputation and your finances. Choice
IdentityⓇ can help you.

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