Cyber Expert Linda Criddle Details Internet-Safety Dangers
Criddle said social networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, can be useful tools, as are other things such as online banking and shopping, but exhorts consumers to protect themselves with the best safety device available and to be extremely cautious about revealing personal information. She centered mainly on how criminals profile victims through the Internet. Criminals also check out bridal and baby registries, where identity theft can happen even before a child is born, and obituary places, especially those that include genealogical data.
Criddle at one time, plugged fake data into a health survey on longevity that kept request personal medical queries,followed by a health insurance survey that wanted financial information. She noted that her data was being fed in real time to a titan retail pharmaceutical firm that wanted to sell her products and it also was attending other, unnamed sites.