Should you be worried about online privacy?
City of Ottawa pension recipients are worried about their privacy after a computer hard drive containing some personal information was stolen from the pension plan’s actuary.
But identity thieves don't actually need a hard drive to set up shop. They just need access. And you may have already opened that door.
Wondering just what personal information you may have left behind somewhere?
Have a look at NotInMyBackyardDiggity, a new tool designed to swiftly crawl popular websites, including Twitter and YouTube, and locate caches of data that might include your sensitive information.
Developed by Stach & Liu, a Phoenix-based security consultancy, the tool is not only designed to help large organizations, but individuals as well.
Type an e-mail address, SIN number or any other sensitive data. A few minutes later, you'll be able to see whether someone has stored that piece of information in an insecure college or public database, for instance.
You'll have to follow up to get the organization storing the data to remove it but at least you'll have an idea of what's floating around.
Click here and here for more details.
By Gordon Powers, MSN Money
Posted by: Frank | Aug 6, 2012 11:58:28 AM
I have heard endless talk concerning on-line privacy. At the same time people will dump their souls out on Facebook. Go figure!!!!!!! Dah!!!!!!
Posted by: Link | Oct 9, 2012 5:47:37 PM
An impressive share! I have just forwarded this onto a co-worker who has been conducting a little research on this. And he in fact bought me dinner simply because I found it for him... lol. So allow me to reword this.... Thank YOU for the meal!! But yeah, thanx for spending time to discuss this topic here on your web site.