The implications of mismanaged personal information can be terrible, easily leading to a tarnished reputation or identity theft. You can’t pretend the world is all flowers and smiles. If you’re not actively controlling and protecting your personal information online that’s exactly what you’re doing. First, you need to understand how much of your personal information is exposed for the world to see, and that includes identity thieves who troll the internet looking for victims. Basically, all of your personal information is exposed. Home address, email, phone numbers, names of your children, even social security numbers –– it’s all out there somewhere. If you don’t control access to it someone is going to steal it.
Over 42,000 Identities Are Stolen Every Day
Don’t believe us? It happens everyday, more accurately, it happens every two seconds. Do the math. That means over 42,000 identities are stolen every day. You can be sure these 42,000 identity theft victims once thought what you’re thinking right now, “it won’t happen to me.” But it did happen to them, and can happen to you.
According to the FBI, identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes. So think of that 42,000 daily victims as just the starting point. Last year, five major data breaches alone put half a billion accounts at risk. Those accounts include bank and credit card accounts with passwords, social security numbers and more. And those five breaches are just the tip of the iceberg. 1 in 5 email addresses and accounts associated with those emails have already been compromised in a data breach. Just think, if you have five emails, or five people with emails in your family with an email address, odds are that one has been compromised in a data breach. If you do online banking with that email address you can have a serious problem.
Now let’s talk about a serious solution –– MyLife, an effective way to keep your personal information protected online. MyLife pulls together all of your exposed personal information from every corner of the web to show you exactly how much you are at risk. This is a great resource because it saves you countless hours of searching for yourself, hoping to find yourself on websites you’ve never heard of. Once you see all of the websites exposing your information you can remove what you want kept private with a single click. Trying to remove your personal information without MyLife can take weeks. You have find these websites and research their removal policies. Then begin your letter writing and phone call campaign, faxing identifying documents and following up with phone call after phone call.
Data Breach Protection
With new data breaches popping up everyday MyLife counters this very real threat with 24/7 monitoring of the illegal web. You simply enter your email addresses into a form field and MyLife begins to scan for signs that it’s been compromised. If it has, MyLife tells you what data breach exposed the information and what actions you need to take next. Best of all, this monitoring continues constantly as long as you’re a MyLife member. So each time you hear about another data breach in the news you can stay calm with the peace of mind that MyLife is watching out for you, even in the darkest, dangerous corners of the web.
$1 Million Identity Theft Protection Guarantee
No one can absolutely, guarantee that your identity will never be stolen. But MyLife guarantees that if all of its proven safeguards are breached, as rare as that is, MyLife will be there to help undo any damage by spending up to $1 million dollars to cover any costs you might incur ––including lost income, fraudulent bank accounts withdrawals and legal costs. On top of that, MyLife even protects your wallet with Lost Wallet Protection that helps you quickly canceling and replacing whatever credit and debit cards, and documents were in your wallet when it was lost.
Your Reputation Is At Stake
Have you ever searched the web to see how you look to the world? You should. Managing your personal information online has crucial implications to your public image. Because of the internet we all live public lives. There’s no way around it. People mention and post photos of you in social media. No one is naïve enough anymore to think that potential employers, landlords, even people you might be interested in dating aren’t looking you up online. Because they are. We all do it. In fact, Google processes over 40,000 search every second. That’s 3.5 billion searches each and every day. You can imagine of many millions of them are people checking up on other people. Someone might be running a search on you right now.
Another benefit of having MyLife protecting your personal information is that each time someone searches for you or view your information they’ll alert you. Whether it’s an old friend, identity thief or potential employer you’ll get the details. This information might lead to valuable connections in your personal or professional life.
MyLife Helps Build And Protect Your Reputation
MyLife personal information management includes showing you everything shown and said about you on the web. Seeing this information before a potential employer, for instance, gives you the ability to correct errors an set the record straight. Putting your best foot forward today starts with taking control of your online footprint.
Your Personal Information Is Your Responsibility
As much as the internet has enriched our lives it has a downside in the way allows things about us that we’d rather keep private to be exposed and even sold. That makes protecting your identity, privacy and public image more important than ever. As daunting as task as that can be joining MyLife makes it easy.
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