Ways to prevent the disclosure of personal information:
1. Watch out for phishing websites when shopping online. When logging in to the shopping website, you should verify whether the website domain name is correct, and carefully click on the payment link sent by the merchant from the instant messaging tool to prevent falling into the phishing scam.
2. Properly handle documents containing personal information, such as express orders, air tickets and shopping receipts. Discarded materials containing personal information must be properly disposed of. If you throw it away carelessly, it may fall into the hands of criminals, resulting in the disclosure of personal information.
3. The purpose should be indicated on the copy of ID card. When providing a copy of the ID card, it is necessary to indicate "This copy is only used for ×××× purposes, and other purposes are invalid" and the date in the area containing the identity information. Clear the copier cache after copying is completed.
4. Resume only provides necessary information. Don't fill in specific information in your resume, especially your home address and ID number.
5. Don't disclose personal information on social platforms or group chats.
6. Be careful when taking photos in social software. Be careful when taking pictures. Don't take photos containing personal information. Share photos by creating groups.
7. Carefully participate in online survey activities. Before participating in such activities, you should choose a website with reliable reputation, carefully check the real situation of the other party, and don't fill in it rashly, which will lead to the disclosure of personal information.
8. Free wifi is easy to reveal privacy. When logging in to online banking with wireless wifi, you can access it through a special app client. In order to protect your personal information, it is best to set the wifi connection to manual.
Solutions to Personal Information Disclosure
1, change the account number.
After personal information is leaked, you should change your account as soon as possible. Because the network is very developed now, if you don't change your account after the information is leaked, all kinds of information registered under this account will flow out continuously. Therefore, once the source of the leak is found, it is necessary to immediately stop using the account and cut off the source of the leak from the source.
2. Change important passwords.
Nowadays, people can't live without the Internet. Once personal information is leaked, it involves a wide range. Especially for people who like online shopping, personal information is often associated with important information such as bank account number and password. Therefore, once personal information is leaked, important passwords should be changed immediately to avoid economic losses.
3. report the case.
Once personal information is leaked, you should call the police. The purpose of reporting a case is to protect one's own rights and interests, and the other is to file a case. Once more people encounter similar situations to yours, they can deal with them together. This can not only protect your privacy, but also avoid more economic losses.
4. Lawyers sue.
If important personal information is lost and you know how to lose it or have many clues, you can consult relevant laws and regulations with professional lawyers. If the lawyer gives a positive answer, he can use legal weapons to safeguard his rights and interests.
5. Collect evidence.
After the information is leaked, it is easy to receive all kinds of emails and phone calls from all over the world. At this time, you should pay attention and write down useful information such as the phone number or email address of the other party. Perhaps this information is trivial, but once collected, it can not only help you defend your rights, but also help more people.
legal ground
Criminal law of the people's Republic of China
Article 253-1 Whoever, in violation of the relevant provisions of the State, sells or provides personal information of citizens to others, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.
Whoever, in violation of the relevant provisions of the state, sells or provides others with personal information of citizens obtained in the course of performing their duties or providing services shall be given a heavier punishment in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
Whoever steals or illegally obtains citizens' personal information by other means shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph.
Where a unit commits the crimes mentioned in the preceding three paragraphs, it shall be fined, and the persons who are directly in charge and other persons who are directly responsible shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs.