Protect Your Personal Information

You are at an office park and the only way to gain access and attend your meeting is to exchange your personal information - you sign away your name, ID number and contact details, while at least one security camera is carefully trained on your car. At more sophisticated security-controlled premises, one might have the pleasure of having both your drivers' licence and fingerprints scanned before entrance is permitted. It's happened to me and, in every case, I have felt more than a little uncomfortable about who has access to that information and where my personal details would end up.  There is no such thing as being anonymous these days.

At some point, we have all had concerns regarding our personal information being collected, used, stored and given to others. We don't always have control over who has access to our private details. The horror stories abound: identity theft, credit card skimming and large-scale security breaches exposing the personal information of