Are you using Facebook? Facebook, the social networking giant, was caught in an important juncture of life and death because a scandal that one of the biggest data leaks in history broke out. It is about 50 million users’ data leakage!
Why does it matter?
It was thought to affect the Brexit vote and the US presidential election! Facebook will push the bias information to change the tendency of voters on the basic of their personal data, so it means the vote can be stolen in some cases. We never know what extent it influence of the vote but we feel very disgusted and astonished about the scandal.
WhatsApp co-founder, Brian Acton, even tells his Twitter followers to delete Facebook. ↓↓↓
Users never know where and when the date will leak. As a matter of fact, your information must be leaked already in some way. Register in website or App, sending resume, ordering takeout or even just connecting the internet, would leak your personal information to some content.
In China, there were some leakage broken out yet. With the network developed fast, the personal information would be more transparent. Let’s see the situation of leakage and how to deal with it.
What are the easiest ways to leak your personal information in China?
1
Telephone Number
Sometimes, when receiving a phone call from far-away place, a man or woman will sell something to you. Or some message about some advertisements comes frequently. What’s even more frightening is that some utilized your phone number to register the websites, or swindle your family or friends.
And the truth is that you just wrote the phone number in a personality test website yesterday, or just sent the resume for a job.
2
Address
Watch out! If the telephone number was leaked, it would be some annoyance. But if the address was leaked , it would be dangerous! Living in China, shopping online is part of our live, such as Taobao, JD, or Amazon China.
And for this, we surely write down our address. But the key is that after receiving the stuff, you should keep the package and express waybill for personal information. Some thieves would collect these information to know where you live, and the time you leave home for work. Then you will find out an empty room after work.
3
Passport Number
A Passport Number can be utilized by many ways. Your check-in record, arrival-departure record, flight record and house, car or company, can be found out if a person has technology on purpose! So maybe you would ask why the passport number can leak in China? Does the government do it deliberately? Of course not.
To play a game, it would be a adult verify. Renting a house, you would sign a contract. Shared bike also need to use your passport number. In some links, personal information will leak.
4
Other Information
It is like credit reporting, your IP address, birthday, family members, driving licence and so on.
How to avoid leaking
your personal information?
It divides into two situations, online and real life.
Online.
Don’t make questionnaire out optionally. It would be the primary way to leak your personal information.
Install antivirus. Your computer reserved a lot of your information, so you have to avoid the virus from the internet.
Using the different names when you register. Then you will know which website or App leaking the data.
Don’t detail your resume too much online. When you attempt to find a job by the App, just write down your education background, work experience, and other basic information that connected with your work.
Don’t connect the free WIFI outside before you know the owner. Your data in mobile phone can be copied easily.
Real Life.
Reserve your ticket, express waybill, resume and copies of your ID. Then you can put it into a black plastic bag to throw way.
When you duplicate the materials, don’t put all the materials in one USB flash disk, because some unscrupulous merchants will copy your materials secretly.
Never left your personal information in sales promotion, you will get much more advertisement due to it.
You should be more careful about your personal information when you stay in another country. HACOS hopes you to have a good experience in China.
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HACOS,Business Services Solutions Master