Top 5 ways to protect your Digital Identity

Most of our life we spend on the Internet these days. We share our personal information here, there, and everywhere. Sometimes, (may be most of the times), we can’t keep on thinking on what to share and what not to share. We hear about data breaches and hacking news every day. In situations like these, where sharing personal information and data breaches have become part of daily life, it becomes more important to protect your digital identity.

In this article, we will NOT focus on Online Tracking and Protection of your Digital Privacy. But, we will focus on protecting your digital identity. This is to make sure the minimal impact in the event of a data breach at a company you do business with.

What is digital identity?

Digital Identity is what identifies us as citizens in today’s digital world. It allows the association of information to a physical person in a digital context.

Your physical identity is associated with series of characteristics ranging from name, age, gender to academic, cultural, and social levels, including tastes and/or preferences. In case of digital identity, few extra characteristics are added such as email id, social security number, credit card number, debit card number, and bank account number etc.

The digital identity (or…