A Special Opportunity for ITRC Visitors Provided by Shop Shield®… Protect your Identity Don’t Leave a Trace

The ITRC has long been concerned about the vulnerability of personal identity information (PII) on the Internet. Consumers regularly give up their personal information in online transactions.

Internet experts as well as the ITRC recognize that the ideal solution to this problem would be to not transmit personal information to websites at all.  The ability to shop, pay bills, or sign up at sites without ever giving out any personal information would represent a significant improvement in online safety standards.

Shop Shield®, a product of Kemesa, LLC, is the first to do this.   It is in a class of products identified by the ITRC as a “Secure Payment Agent” (“SPA”).  A Secure Payment Agent is a method of protecting your personal information that allows you to remain completely anonymous while conducting online transactions or signing up at web sites so you never give up your personal information. For more information on Secure Payment Agents, see the ITRC White Paper

Kemesa (Keeps Me Safe) is offering a 90 day free trial of Shop Shield® at no charge or obligation to ITRC visitors.  For a limited time you will be able to sign up for the full array of the Shop Shield® services described below. To learn more about this offer and how Shop Shield® works go to the Shop Shield website.

·          Prevents ALL your information from being transmitted unless absolutely necessary

·          Shop Shield® replaces your name, email address, user name, password, phone number, billing information and credit cards numbers with anonymous data that becomes useless and untraceable after a transaction

·          Protects against Phishing at Login on websites, or incoming email

·          Handles your sensitive data so it is useless if removed from the Shop Shield data system

·          Can be used at virtually all shopping web sites

·          Can be used at all bill pay sites that accept credit cards

·          Verifies user identity with EVERY use before allowing access to the system and your account

·          Can be used from any location or device, either computer or mobile

·          Can charge transactions directly to the users bank accounts and/or any major credit or debit card

It is also important that the PII you give to any company be kept safe and secure.  We have asked Kemesa how this is addressed with Shop Shield.  Kemesa’s response: “Keeping our users’ PII safe and secure is a top priority. The Shop Shield data security system integrates Department of Defense security criteria, and exceeds the requirements of federal banking standards.  All PII is encrypted, fragmented into undecipherable segments, and then stored on multiple independent networks.  As a result, even if the information given to Shop Shield were all stolen it would be unreadable gibberish.”

The ITRC believes keeping control of your personal information and not giving it out in the first place is the best way to reduce your risk of identity theft.  Shop Shield meets the ITRC’s Secure Payment Agent (SPA) criteria, and is a highly effective solution to conducting Internet business without exposure of your personal information.
To learn more about this click on Shop Shield