News Release: A Reminder to Protect Your Personal Information during the Holiday Shopping Season

Thu, Nov 26, 2015

WHITEHORSE – Diane Mcleod-McKay, Yukon's Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC), is reminding Yukoners to actively protect their personal information during this holiday shopping season.

Yukoners need to be mindful during the holiday shopping season about the risks to their personal information given that there is a significant amount of personal information in the marketplace. Yukoners need to take care to protect their personal information while holiday shopping to avoid becoming a victim of identity theft and fraud.

Identity theft occurs when a person assumes your identity. Identity fraud occurs when someone posing as you uses your personal information in a fraudulent way, such as to create a credit card in your name with your credit card number and uses this card to make purchases which are then charged to your credit card account.

Please click News Release to view the IPC's full message on Privacy Tips for Holiday Shoppers, which includes very important details to help Yukoners better protect their personal information during this holiday shopping season.

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For more information contact:

Diane McLeod-McKay, B.A., J.D.

Information and Privacy Commissioner

867-667-8468

info@ombudsman.yk.ca

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