What IS Personal Information and Why Is It Dangerous?
Personal information is any information that can be used to identify you or find out where you are. This includes obvious things like your full name and address, and some less-obvious things like your car’s license plate number or what sport you play at school. Cyber criminals and sneaky weirdo strangers will use everything they know about you to trick and harm you. Knowing your personal information just makes it that much easier. They might try to find out where you live and break into your house, or try to steal your identity or your money. They might even lie to you about how old they are and try to get you to meet with them in person to hurt or even kidnap you. Cyber criminals can be very patient when trying to discover your offline identity. They’ll casually slip it into conversation, hoping that you won’t notice. They remember everything you tell them and might stick around for a long time trying to get you to slip up and reveal something. The more personal information you reveal
