Personal Information and why it is important to keep it safe

    Personal information is information concerning your life. Personal information can range from your full name to your address or your e-mail address to private things like blood-types and income. The more personal information you give out, the easier it is for someone to steal your personal information or even steal your identity. The more personal information you give out, the more privacy you lose. When your identity is stolen a person can pretend to be you and write unwanted messages that can get you in trouble and in a worst case scenario, they can steal a lot of your money. Most people believe that they are safe and it is unlikely to happen to them but they are sadly wrong. In 2005, 12,000 Canadians had their identity stolen and that number has greatly increased because the growth of technology. As technology changes, there is a bigger chance of your identity being stolen. To help you keep your personal information safe, here are some tips: keep information that you would not like to be public, out of the internet. If you are applying for a job, the employer can look up what you had previously written to see if you are a worthy for the job position. Even if you deleted the information, the record would stay with you in the archives of the website or it can even be of another person's page. It is important to keep your location unknown because a person will know if your house is empty or not and that is certainly not a good thing. 

    Please visit the other pages to learn more about how to keep yourself safe, The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), their website and what to do if your personal information is being taken.