Privacy Protection Is Something Your Whole Family Deserves

When you’re in a car with your family, you wouldn’t buckle your own safety belt and not care whether anyone else is buckled in. You want everyone to be protected. That same principle should apply to online privacy.

While it’s essential to safeguard your own privacy and identity, it’s equally important to consider a privacy and identity protection plan that offers your entire household the highest level of protection against today’s cyberthreats and risks of identity theft.

Think about it: When cybercriminals steal or hack personal data, they don’t care whether that information belongs to you, your spouse, or your kids. They just want to quickly get the data onto the dark web, where they can anonymously sell it to the highest bidder.

A Breach of One Family Member Can Affect Everybody Else

Everyone in your household who’s old enough to be online probably has several devices and dozens, if not hundreds, of online accounts. That’s a lot of family data stored locally or in the cloud—email addresses, passwords, phone numbers, your home address, financial data, medical data, and more. Your spouse and kids may have some of your personal information stored on their devices and in their online accounts, and vice versa.

If one device or account is hacked or stolen, other family members’ data are likely to be affected. This is not even counting the emotional impact that one person’s privacy breach or identity theft can have on the entire household.

Why Kids Especially Need Identity and Privacy Protection

One of the many consequences of the Covid pandemic was the fact that, during lockdowns and social restrictions, children began living even more of their lives online, from their daily education to their interactions with friends. While most students have returned to the classroom, many school districts are continuing to expand their virtual and remote offerings even now, more than two years after the pandemic began.

The use of school-mandated videoconferencing tools and social media channels for learning poses serious privacy and security risks for children. Couple this with the reality that kids don’t always follow the best password hygiene or other digital best practices, and you’ve got a recipe for potential breaches of their privacy.

Then there’s the issue of identity theft. Don’t think that kids can become victims of this pervasive crime? According to a report by Javelin Strategy & Research in conjunction with AARP, 1 in 50 children were the target of identity theft in 2021.

How You Can Protect Your Entire Family

IDX offers a cost-effective Complete Plan featuring maximum privacy and identity protection for families, covering two adults and up to five minor dependents under the age of 18. Along with $1 million in identity theft insurance and a 100% identity recovery money-back guarantee, the plan provides an array of critical tools and services built to defend the entire household against common cyberthreats. These include:

Password Manager—using military-grade encryption technology to create and store passwords for your online accounts in a single, secure spot.

Password Manager can generate random, hard-to-hack passwords for each of your accounts; to access any of them, simply log into Password Manager using just one strong password. It also allows you to easily and safely share your passwords among trusted family members.

CyberScan—offering your household a valuable early warning system to help prevent identity theft.

Cyberscan continuously monitors all layers of the web—including the dark web, where cybercriminals buy and sell stolen identities—and notifies you immediately if your personal information appears to be compromised.

SocialSentry—helping prevent your family’s social media accounts from being exploited by scammers and stalkers.

If your kids are active on social media (and of course they are), you’ll want to make sure they activate SocialSentry. It sends alerts about account takeovers, suspicious activity, inappropriate content, and more.

Remember, if you’re in the market for a privacy and identity protection plan, make sure you factor in your family’s needs. And if you currently subscribe to an individual plan, consider the benefits—including cost savings per household member—of expanding the plan to cover your entire family.