- Hang On to Your Privacy by "The Shred"
- Shut off the Junk Mail Data Siphon
- Watch out for falsely requested personal data via phone
- Protect your payment details when you order delivery food
- Don't fax private documents
- Lock up your personal private documents
- Only carry the necessities
- Keep your personal items close (and your personal data closer)
- Lock up your personal items at work
- Require a signature on your package deliveries
- Protect your packages by scheduling deliveries
- Use multiple addresses (and do it strategically)
- Have new checks mailed to you alternate address
- Put your mail on Hold During vacations or family trips
- Take your outgoing mail to the post office
- Never provide your social security number or drivers license number on a hand written form
- Avoid the free T-Shirt
- Don't put your key under the mat...hide it better than that
- Properly dispose of Prescription Medication bottles
- Don't keep private documents at work
- Go green (for your privacy and the planet) with paperless bills and statements
- Monitor your bank statement for unrecognized purchases (large and tiny)
- Be smarter than your smart home devices
- Stay savvy in the smart speaker crazy
- Turn off device cameras and microphones when not in use
- Make sure your smart home security system is secure
- Turn off your baby monitors when you are not using them
- Disconnect Your baby monitors from Wi-Fi
- Secure your wearable fitness tracker data
- Turn off one-click ordering with online retailers
- Beware of stranger danger
- Embrace the chip reader for debt payments
- No chip reader? Sign that dotted line then!
- Don't forget to sign out (especially on public computers or Wi-Fi)
- Always give the printer or copier a final glance
- Be picky about where you place your customer loyalties
- Don't share your birthday with every business or restaurant in town
- Watch for utility bills or charges you don't recognize
- Don't share streaming Video account passwords
- Use the alerts available on credit accounts
- Remove all personal information before selling, donating, or recycling and old computer
- Change your Passwords any time there's a privacy breach in the news
- Never write down your passwords at home or at work
- Don't let parental controls be your sole privacy solution for your kids
- Teach your children what privacy truly means (and show your work with examples)
- Opt for Initials Only on backpacks and Jackets
- Empower Children with the Privacy Protection Power of "No"
- Be the Wi-Fi Gatekeeper of your Household
- Create a code word or Gesture for privacy
- If there's an App for that...there should be a parent for it
- Other online risks kids should know
- Oversee and surveys, forms, or giveaways
- Disable location settings and discourage social media check-ins
- Be smart about luggage tags (and teach kids to plan ahead)
- Be a privacy advocate at your child's school
- Oversee all online shopping in your household
- Uphold an open dialogue policy in your home surrounding privacy concerns
- Teach your children not to share your home Wi-Fi password
- Never disclose your spare key location or share your home security code
- Help you children set up their privacy settings on social media accounts
- Teach your children about private posts and pictures
- Teach your children to say something if they see something
- Caution kids about the friends-of-friends loophole
- Teach Children to be on the lookout for copycat "friends"
- Teach your children to never share photos of strangers online
- Teach your children to never share their phone pin
- Carefully monitor online gaming
- Don't allow your children to game with strangers
- Disable chat in online games
- Centralize the location of your family computer
- Teach your children everything new you learn about privacy protection
- Secure all of your devices with strong passwords or PIN's
- Check the permissions on preloaded apps
- Watch for unexplained diminished battery life
- Don't allow any notifications on your lock screen
- Pay attention to sudden surges in your data usage or phone bill
- Avoid using Data or Wi-Fi at a crowded event, festival, or demonstration
- Take advantage of content filters
- Auto-lock your screens
- Get off the phone grid with alternate phone numbers
- Forward your alternate phone number to your personal mobile phone number
- Understand the risks of biometric Device protection
- Don't unlock your phone with your face
- Disable bluetooth when you're not using it
- Research apps before you install them on your mobile devices
- Pay attention to what apps ask to access
- Manually adjust app settings
- Remove app access to your camera
- Block apps from microphone access
- Password protect your apps
- Make sure apps don't continue running in the background
- Avoid clicking any link delivered via text
- Keep messaging apps off your mobile
- Don't sync messaging apps to your personal contacts
- Enable phone-finding and remote-wipe features or apps on your phone
- Restore your device to factory settings and wipe your phone before Selling, Upgrading, or Donating it
- Don't Get Personal on Public Wi-Fi
- Use your data to connect while traveling or in public places
- Don't answer or respond to the unknown
- Permanently block calls or texts from suspicious numbers
- Stay diligent during mobile and media mergers
- Delete messages you receive when recovering or resetting an account password
- Double down with two-factor authentication
- Delete any apps or accounts you no longer use
- Consider paid apps over free ones
- Take social media apps off your phone
- Sync your smart phone with your smartwatch
- Never change your phone at a public charging station
- Upgrade Your router regularly
- Put protections in place to block Malware and Viruses (and run updates often)
- Upgrade you passwords to Passphrases
- Browse safely with HTTPS sites only
- Don't save or Auto-Fill passwords in your browser
- Keep your head in the cloud services you use
- Say No to cookies
- Clear your cookies, Cache, and browser history often
- Be stingy with your clicks
- Embrace the peace (and peace of mind) of Blocking Ads
- Make sure every computer in your home has a firewall
- Don't get reeled in by Phishers
- Empower your privacy by powering down devices
- Change assigned passwords immediately
- Read Privacy Policies for Any accounts, profiles, or purchases online
- Password protect online documents and shared files
- Be cautious when sharing files through free chat programs
- Never share passwords on Public Wi-Fi
- Encrypt data stored on USB Drives or SIM cards
- Always have a back-up plan for your personal information
- Declare a Weekly data cleanup day
- Sign up for free credit monitoring with your bank or credit card company
- Contact credit monitoring bureaus (in writing) to prohibit data sharing
- Monitor your credit report regularly and look for anything suspicious
- Disable your webcam when it's not in use (Plus a Nifty tape trick)
- Don't go anywhere online that you'd be embarrassed for others to see
- Trust your intuition
- Always protect your last four
- Get silly with your security questions
- Set up a junk email account
- Never shop on public wifi
- Keep private matters like taxes and banking to private, secured connections
- Use caution in popular searches
- Setup a browser alert for your name
- Use an online identity monitoring service
- Personalize your Ad preferences and experiences
- Keep your relationship status between you and your significant other
- Hide your friend list
- Make all your photos and albums private
- Limit access to your posts (Even the older ones)
- Leave groups or parties others have invited you to without your permission
- Put controls in place for posts and comments
- Hide your personal information (or better yet, remove it entirely)
- Change your passwords frequently
- Notify friends if your profile goes funky
- Use common courtesy as your guideline for information sharing
- Be direct with family and friends about maintaining your privacy
- Avoid Info-grubbing ploys on social media
- Turn off your location in your social media profiles and accounts
- Wait until you're back home to post vacation details and photos
- Don't share photos of your children in the bath, nude, or in other embarrassing situations
- Don't give away your children's identity with their birth details
- Create private photo albums just for family and selected friends
- Keep you address out of your online photos
- Beware of "Too good to be true" Syndrome
- Remember: Online posts have a very long self life
- Be Cautious about profile sharing on any of your Social Professional Accounts
- Don't share data with third-party apps
- Practice Conscious sharing
- Block anyone you don't want to connect with professionally
- Control who can message you on social platforms
- Beware of the social media survey
- Never send money via social channels
- And don't send money via chat apps either
- Choose a reputable Email Provider
- Use a VPN to protect remote connections
- There's NO Nigerian Prince (and other email scams to avoid)
- The IRS doesn't do email
- Beware of any emails declaring you a winner
- Know how to spot (and avoid) ransomeware risks
- Be skeptical of emails requesting you "Log Back In"
- If you don't know the sender, delete the email
- Never open attachments or zip files from unknown senders
- Mark unwanted email as spam
- Dump your spam box daily
- Ignore (and delete) crisis-based emails
- Be wary of emails asking for help
- Watch for emails from names you know (but look or feel "off")
- Use reverse image search to validate photos in online classified ads
- Look for typos, spelling, and grammar errors, or odd characters and text in online classified ads
- Give preference to online classified listings with a phone number (preferably local)
- Beware of texting scams initiated in online classifieds
- Use a secure email service when selling items on a classifieds site
- Be cautious about switching communication mediums during a classifieds conversation
- Never pay for an item you haven't seen in person
- Don't display your home address in any ads you post to the classifieds
- Don't use photo's that display personal details
- Never show items for sale inside your home
- Leave your family and pets out of classifieds photos
- Read the classifieds rules as inspiration (and follow them too of course)
- Know how to validate online dating profiles
- Know how to spot catfishing ploys on dating sites
- Use the dating website or app chat until you establish trust
- Always meet in public until you get to know someone from an online dating site
- Don't leave your personal items unattended on a date
- Remember: alcohol clouds judgement
- Be cautious of urgent requests for help or money on dating sites
- Know the common signs your accounts have been hacked or compromised
- Change your passwords immediately (All of them)
- Verify You were impacted by a privacy breach
- Alert your bank and credit card companies
- Contact credit bureaus and dispute any fraudulent charges or collections
- Monitor your credit carefully
- Issue a credit freeze
- Order new credit and debit cards Identify which devices were impacted
- Identify which devices were impacted
- Regain control of your accounts
- Delete accounts or start new ones
- Don't accept help from random individuals or companies after a data breach
- Consider cyberattack insurance (but do your research)
- Don't blame yourself, but learn from your experience
- Share your story to help others protect their privacy
- Make your privacy a priority