- 1). Educate students on safe Internet practices in the classroom. Students use the Internet daily in school, and need instruction on how to protect themselves online in school and at home.
- 2). Utilize paper shredders at home to destroy personal information, including mail with birth dates, social security numbers or banking information.
- 3). Instruct teens to only disclose personal information to individuals they know and reputable companies when making purchases.
- 4). Show teens how to tighten security on social sites and encourage them to only approve friend requests from those they know. Instruct your teen to ignore requests from people they they do not know well or at all, as they could be predators looking for information to steal their identity.
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