Secure Your baby’s Identity

If you're an expectant parent, add "ensure the security of baby's identity" to your getting-ready-for-baby checklist.

For many parents, planning for a new baby is a busy time of prepping the nursery and safety-proofing the house. What many parents fail to do, however, is safety-proof their little one's new identity. Today's cyber criminals are hacking the newly issued legal documents, health records, and even pre-school applications of new-born infants because, most of the time, the victims don't discover the crime until years after it occurs.

Child Identity Theft is On the Rise

The shift to a digital society means that more and more personal and private data is now being transferred to vast databanks. These databanks store the aggregated information of sometimes millions of people. Thieves hack into these databanks and use the data to steal identities and create lavish lifestyles for themselves at the hacked person's expense. Every minute, 19 people become victims of identity theft.

Children are targeted more often these days. In a 2012 study, one in 40 American households had at least one child whose personal data was stolen by identity thieves. Perhaps more alarmingly, for more than one in four of those families (27 percent), the thief was someone known to the child. Because children don't expect to have credit activity, they (and their parents) don't routinely check their credit records where evidence of identity theft first shows up. Consequently, thieves can enjoy sometimes years of unfettered access to the child's economic resources.

Protect Your Little One's Personal Life

There are two aspects involved in protecting your child's personal data: 

Minding Their Perimeter

From before the moment of birth, data begins amassing about the infant, including fetal and newborn health data, parent's identities and sometimes occupations, home addresses, and more. The new baby is also registered at the hospital; at the offices of their medical providers, and often, with the government of their home jurisdiction. In some countries, a tax identity number is also routinely issued at birth, too, to ensure accurate accountings at tax time.

As a concerned parent, it is appropriate for you to clarify the data security practices of all entities that receive or generate information about your baby.

Creating Their Safe Space

As a parent, you also play a critical role in keeping your child's personal data safe by guarding their records until they can manage them themselves. Keeping these documents safe means keeping them safe from hackers, as well as keeping them accessible when needed. For many parents, this challenge is formidable. They don't know how to avoid a hacker in the first place, and many are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of records that gathers over time. Consequently, the child's data is often "collected" haphazardly, and is rarely, if ever organised into a usable file.

Hack-Proof, Cloud-based Data Storage Solutions

At e-Right, our data storage solutions solve both these problems:

·        By transferring your child's private data into our patented encrypted vault, you move them out of the reach of today's hacking community.

·        And, because our storage resources are Cloud-based, you can easily organise and access them through an internet connection located wherever you, or your child, happens to be.

Encrypted document and file storage puts all documents beyond the reach of today's hacking community. Within each file, registered users can easily access the data and communicate with each other, all safely behind the digital security wall. Documents stored within the e-Right vault are also traceable if or when they are accessed outside of our secure facilities so you can always find and retrieve your data.

Protecting all aspects of a little one's life is the most important duty of every parent. With e-Right's secure file storage capacity, you can safely and confidently check that obligation off the "getting-ready-for-baby" checklist.

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