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Consumers and businesses globally spend hours each day exploring the Internet for news, information, and communications purposes.

Today’s National Data Privacy Day serves as an important reminder that consumers need to protect their own personal information when accessing the World Wide Web and businesses need to safeguard the information which they are responsible for collecting and storing.
Identity Theft 911, a leader in identity theft services for businesses and consumers worldwide, offers the following tips to protect personal data and information:

Use credit cards for online purchases, not debit cards. Debit cards automatically deduct money from your bank account.

Only shop on secure sites. To see if a Web site is secure, look for “https” in the address bar. Also, there’s usually a small yellow padlock logo at the right of your Web browser address bar.
Shopping Web sites have no reason to ask for your Social Security number, or passwords to your e-mail and bank accounts as part of the buying process. Never provide them.
Use different “strong” passwords (those that are more secure) for online retailers and your personal e-mail accounts. A strong password is composed of numbers, upper- and lower-case letters and symbols. For example, a password like “3Dogz$$!” is a better option than “1006.”

SOURCE Identity Theft 911