We share many details of daily life online, but where do we draw the line, what we share about ourselves, our family and friends? There are a few bits of personal information, it is best never to share online, here are ten of them:
1 Your full date of birth
While you may like to get published a lot of birthday wishes from your friends on your Facebook Timeline, you have your date of birth required information is listed in your profile with one of the main elements, scammers and thieves may steal your identity and open accounts in your name .
2 from your current location
Many people do not realize that when they publish a status update or a tweet, may also be a reference to its current location. Provide position information can be dangerous, because it potential thieves, who could not be at home. Depending on your privacy settings, this innocent tweet your holiday can the bad guys they give the green light waiting to steal your house.
3 photos of your children or the children of your friends by name by keyword
Ok, this is a touchy subject. We all want to protect our children We would be online for the world to see the images in front of a truck to protect them, but many of us publish hundreds of name tagging our children. The problem is that you can never be sure that only your friends to see, be these images. What if your friend has stolen her cell phone or miss a connection to Facebook in the library and to log out? You can not access the "Friends Only" setting, because you never know count. Let's assume everything is public, and not everything that you do not want the world to have access to write.
If you send photos of their children in order to remove any geocoding information, and avoid their real names on the label of the image or description. Know your true friends are their names, no need to label them. Ditto to tag photos of friends with their children. In doubt, give the label.
I would be a hypocrite if I said I had taken all my kids labels Facebook. It is a long process to restore the year the value of the photos, but I am working a little at a time, over time, I've seen it all away.
4 Your Home
Again, you never know who may be looking at your profile. Do not publish where you live makes things easy for the bad guys. What can criminals do with your address? Check out our article on how criminals use Google Maps to "common case" to find out.
5 Your actual phone number
While you want your friends to you if your actual phone number contact case in the wrong hands. It is possible that your position may be reduced by a person with a tool Reverse Phone Number Lookup, which are freely available on the Internet.
A simple way for people to contact you over the phone, give them your real phone number is to use a phone number from Google Voice as a mediator. Check out our article on how to use Google Voice as a firewall policy for details.
6 Your Marital Status
You want to give your stalker awaits green light, while letting you know that your home more likely to be alone? Publish your marital status is the safest way to achieve this. If you want to be mysterious, just say: "It's complicated."
7 geotagged photos
There is no better way to map your current location to a selected image. The phone, the position of all the pictures that you take, be recorded without knowing it. For more information about why geotags can not be as cool as you thought they were and learn your pix nix check out our article on how to remove geotags photos.
August vacation plans
"Hey, I will be on vacation August 25 please come to steal," that's what you say criminals scour social networks to publish their vacation plans, vacation photos, and if the location of a variable, it is still on vacation. Wait until you before uploading your holiday pictures or talk about their holidays online are safe at home. It is "check-in" at this elegant restaurant is definitely worth your location information to potential offenders?
Check out our article on how Facebook Places tracking for advice on how to avoid accidentally somewhere, is disable tested.
9 embarrassing things that they should not be shared with your employer or family
Before you anything online, think about yourself, I want to see my boss or family, it? If not, not to publish. Even if you post something and remove it, does not mean that someone is not a screenshot of it before he had the opportunity to eliminate the catch. More tips on this topic, see our article: How to monitor and protect your online reputation.
10 information about your current job or work projects
Speaking of things work-related social networks is a bad idea. Even an innocent status update how crazy you miss a deadline on a project could provide useful information to their competitors could use against your business.
Is your training program to help in the company safety awareness, educate users about threats like these? If not, see Creating a training program for security awareness to learn how to develop.
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