Here’s what you’re able to do to protect your PII.
What is Personally Identifiable Information?
Personally identifiable information isanyinformation that can be used to figure out who you are.
With just one data point somebody can know who you are.
Think about things like yourIP addressor your birthdate.
However, it should be clear that these puzzles are a lot easier to solve than you may think.
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This lets you assume an IP address associated with the VPN service instead of your own.
IP addresses are an important anchor for data as theyre at the root of your web traffic.
VPNs also have some other tricks to stymie anybody who may want to intercept your data.
Besides rerouting your connection, they also encrypt it with a so-calledVPN tunnel.
If youre going to store documents online, always confirm that youre using asecure servicethat uses end-to-end encryption.
Some examples includeSync.com,pCloud, andProton Drive.
