Anyone who uses banking and financial services, social media, mobile apps, or has retail accounts has shared their personal information far and wide across digital systems. “Social media and messaging platforms, web browsers, and mobile apps already have access to vast amounts of data about each user. Brands you do business with may also have access to your payment information, bank card details, geographic location, movements, purchasing history, family contacts, and more. Because our personal information is such a hot commodity, we need to be even more vigilant about how it could be used for identity theft or to defraud us through phishing,” Collard says. “As an individual, you need to be aware that our information is being traded not only by marketers but also by adversaries.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 24, 2022 07:02 UTC