Personal Information Leakage

Personal Information Leakage

 I think we learned a lot about personal information leakage in the last presentation. The presentation reminded us about the seriousness of the problem. In the online age, something of far greater value can be stolen, your identity. From my previous experience, Action and SK(Nate) have suffered with personal information leaks. I'm one of the victims of personal information leaks. We urgently need to supplement policies to prevent the leaking of private information. How can we reduce the chances of identity theft?

 

 First, I think the problems are the service providers that always require the personal information from us. However actually they do not need the information to provide their services in most cases. My suggestion to prevent the leakage of personal information is that if you needed to use some services on an unreliable web site, You should always remove your personal information after using on the web site.

 

 Second, when anyone touts sampling about a new product or service for you at the street and on the web site, you must not provide your information like cell phone number, e-mail address etc. Log off to make sure that nobody can plagiarize your personal information. Don’t share personal information in instant messages.

 

 Finally, I suggest to use a personal security service and periodically check your identity theft status. You can use the Google's account instead of accounts of the korean companies like Nate, Naver and Daum that they need our personal information.

 

 I think above all is the best ways but as you know, it is not enough for us to feel safe. These days, our government officially announced that web service provider for personals can't gather the social security number from its users. The policy will be useful.