Privacy

In this day and age with hackers on the black market waiting to steal your information, many try to protect their privacy and confidentiality. No matter from purchases online or in person. A person's privacy could be taken. In Tony Bardley's article "Survey reveals generation gap in attitudes about security and privacy," it stated that "more than 40 percent of both Gen-X and Millennial respondents indicated that they never change their passwords, or only change their passwords when forced to." Another alarming statement was "nearly half of Gen-Xers also fail to protect their smartphone with a PIN or pass code of some sort, while only 37 percent of Millennials are that cavalier." I have made sure that when using phone payments to have two type of security. First your phone security either be fingerprint or pass code/password. Then have a second payment security where it needs your fingerprint or pass code/password again. When carrying only one credit card, its better to have two or three back to back since its harder for someone with reader to get information if they just walk by you. Other ways to protect a credit card is to get a RFID blocker/ protector which blocks someone that has a reader to read the card altogether. Many people follow the rules to protect their privacy and confidentiality but even they could be hack by other means. An example of this is leaked information from Equifax. Many report their credit information to this company and protect themselves but when the company itself has a breach, it becomes disastrous. It was said that cyber criminals accessed approximately 145.5 million US Equifax consumers personal data that included their full names, social security numbers, birth dates, address and even their driver license numbers. When it was announced, they set up a website where consumers can see if they were victims but later was found that the website had problems which was related with phishing. We can never be too careful with each technological advances.