What protection measures would you take against identity theft?

Q. What protection measures would you take against identity theft?

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We can protect your against identity theft by following the steps given below:-

(i) Protect personal information: - You should ensure that all your identification and financial documents are kept in a safe and private place. You should provide personal information only when:-

• You know how it will be used
• You are certain it won't be shared
• You initiated contact and know who you're dealing with

(ii) Use Unique Ids to protect your devices and accounts: - To access your online accounts and digital devices, if you use any login and password information, make sure to make them unique in a way that they are not easy to guess or break. Follow these practices:-

• Avoid names, addresses, and birth dates for your passwords/login details.
• Make passwords that are hard-to-guess.
• Make sure all passwords you use include both lower-case and capital letters, numbers, and some special characters.
• Do not use same password for multiple accounts. Each of your passwords should be unique so that if one of them is compromised, the thief does not have access to anything else.

(iii) Use Bio-metric protection:- Bio-metrics are any metrics related to human physical features such as your voice waves, hands, fingerprints, earlobes, retina patterns, iris patterns, DNA etc.
Modern age computing devices like smartphones provide bio-metric protection such as finger print login or face detection technology.
But as with any other technology, bio-metric information can also be misused. Thus, you should always make sure to: -

• Not to overuse it
• Use it only at places you are fully confident of and not at any unreliable place.

You should be very careful with the safety of your bio-metric data because the data stored in a bio-metric database is far more intimate and personal than any other kind of data. You can change passwords but you can't change your fingerprint or iris scan. This means that once your bio-metric data has been compromised, there might be no going back.