How to protect personal information security?

Personal information includes: name, gender, age, home address, work unit, ID number, genetic characteristics, fingerprints, marriage, health, medical records, financial information, mailing address, e-mail, education, experience, account number and password, etc. It also includes social activities and other personally identifiable information, such as telephone records, online shopping records, website browsing traces, IP addresses and other online activities.

Personal self-protection is the first important link of network privacy protection. There are many ways for readers to protect network privacy.

Readers should be very careful to protect their information, and don't casually disclose personal information including email addresses on the Internet. Now, some websites require netizens to obtain certain "membership" services through registration, and some websites encourage netizens to leave personal information by giving gifts. Netizens should pay great attention to this. Just because a form or application needs to fill in personal information doesn't mean that you should disclose it automatically. If you like, you can turn passivity into initiative and use some false information to deal with the excessive demand for personal information. When asked to input data, you can simply change the letters of name, postal code and social security number, which will associate the input information with false identity, thus resisting the technology of data mining and feature testing. Be more careful about personal information that uniquely identifies the identity class, and don't disclose it easily. This information can only be used for online banking, passport reapplication or dealing with trusted companies and institutions. Even if you must leave personal information, you must first determine whether there are policies and measures to protect the privacy and safety of netizens on the website.