Strategies for Protecting Your Identity and Financial Security

#78: In this episode, Chris breaks down the specific actions you can take to protect yourself and your family online. That includes protecting your devices, credit, financial accounts, logins and more. Additionally he covers finding and removing all your personal data from the web. It also includes a brief conversation with Rob Shavell (@robshavell) from DeleteMe about why it's so hard to find and remove your personal info from the internet.

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Resources Mentioned

Protecting Your Devices

• Enable FileVault on Mac
• Device Encryption on Windows
• VeraCrypt
• Create a disk image using Disk Utility on Mac
• Cryptomator
• Boxcryptor
• CloudFlare’s 1.1.1.1 and Warp
• ExpressVPN
• iCloud Private Relay

Logins

• 1Password
• Gmail Task Specific Emails (with +)
• YubiKey 5C NFC Security Key
• OTP Auth App
• Authy App
• Google’s Advanced Protection Program
• have i been pwned?

Credit + Financial Accounts

• Free Annual Credit Reports
• Experian’s Free Credit Monitoring
• CreditKarma
• Freeze Your Credit: Experian | Transunion | Equifax | Chex | Innovis
• Opt Out Prescreen

Removing Personal Info

• DeleteMe - Automate Removing Your Personal Data
• GitHub Data Broker Opt-Out List
• Remove Outdated Content Tools: Google | Bing
• Blur Home on Google/Apple/Bing Maps
• Remove Marketing Data: Axciom | LexisNexis
• Google New Options for Removing PII
• Stop unsolicited mail with DMAchoice
• DoNotCall Registry

Full Show Notes

(1:23) Protecting Your Devices

(5:30) Securing Your Logins and Passwords

(15:58) Locking Down Your Credit and Financial Accounts

(21:01) Removing Your Personal Data Online

(25:18) Interview with Rob Shavell from DeleteMe

(39:54) Protecting Your Home and Home Address

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