Safeguarding Your PrivacySection 1.3

Safeguarding Your Privacy

1. What is Identity Theft?

2. Research a story on identity theft and be prepared to report back to the class on what you have found.

3. Go to library for intro to “Delicious” and other research ideas.

4. Check with me so there are no duplicates

Terms to Know

Identity theftSocial Security NumberSecure SiteOnline profilingcookies

Social Security Number

The 9-digit number used by the Social Security Administration to keep track of your earnings. It can be used to access bank and credit card accounts as well as other personal information.

DO NOT CARRY YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD I N YOUR WALLET OR PRINTED ON YOUR CHECKS

Ways to prevent Identity Theft

1. Deposit outgoing mail in the post office mailbox

2. Remove mail once it is delivered

3. Keep items with personal information in a safe place like a locked drawer or lock box

4. Safeguard your sensitive information on your computer or online with passwords that include both numbers and letters.

More Ways to prevent Identity Theft

5. Avoid easily guessed passwords. Use letters and numbers

6. Don’t share your passwords or write them down where others can get them

7. Don’t give out personal information over the phone, email, mail or web unless you initiated the contact so you know the contact is legitimate

Before sending sensitive data to a web site be sure it is a secure site. One that begins with https:// or shttp://

Make sure your computer at home has a secure internet connection

SHRED all important items like receipts, credit card statements, credit applications, etc.

About Identity Theft

Everything you need to know and then some……

How to Detect Identity Theft

Identity Theft

If your Identity has been stolen and used by a thief

Look at Identity Theft and Your Identity is being used

Online Profiling

A practice in which companies collect information about the web sites a consumer visits and then uses that information to predict what the consumer may buy in the future.

This is done with cookies-small files that are stored on your computer’s hard drive when you visit a site. A cookie enables a web site to remember information about you.

Click on the link

National Do Not Call ListWhat does this mean?

Questions to answer

1. Why should you guard your Social Security Number?

2. How does the Financial Services Modernization Act affect consumer privacy?

3. List three steps you can take to prevent online harassment.