Trust MaskMe To Keep Personal Data Safe Online

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Aug. 13, 2013 - PRLog -- Whether you're managing your cheap hosting website (http://www.ananova.com), shopping, or banking online, you expect your data to be safe.

Abine, online privacy company, lists three things users want protected most: emails, phone numbers, and credit card numbers. It is possible to keep this data safe in a variety of ways separately, but Abine wanted it to be all-inclusive. Their answer: MaskMe.

Under The Radar

MaskMe is a browser extension for both Chrome and Firefox, and provides users with throwaway email addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers. How does it work?

An example: you sign up for a newsletter that you are interested in using your masked email address. After a month, you decide that you're truly not interested and instead of unsubscribing, you simply get rid of the email address, like throwing it away entirely. MaskMe describes the feature as "an unsubscribe button that always works."

Solving A Problem

According to DataLossDB, 500 data breaches have occurred worldwide from January to June 2013. In 2012, there were 1,612 data breaches. No matter how careful we attempt to be, breaches are always a concern. Even cheap hosting sites such as WordPress experience security breaches at one time or another.

MaskMe takes the old problem and applies a new solution: if the data kept in a website's database isn't real, the user's important or sensitive information is never compromised. Wouldn't you rather a crook had your fake credit card number than the real one? And good luck to them in their attempts to use that fake number. The joke's on them!

MaskMe Premium

The Premium version of MaskMe offers credit card protection and phone number protection for a five dollar monthly fee. You just create 'virtual credit cards' that are linked up securely to your actual credit card number. The vendor does not have your true credit card number on file, but you are able to purchase things online with ease. The payment is associated with Abine, which is what appears on your credit card bill. When you are done purchasing on that site, you can delete that fake credit card number.

If it's a secure phone number you're after, the browser extension creates a fake number you are able to gives stores that require your phone number prior to conducting a transaction or websites that require you to enter your phone number to complete a task.

They offer iOS and Android apps, which also require a Premium subscription. The iOS app allows you to call others from your MaskMe number!

Give It A Try

Are you considering giving MaskMe a try? Mashable recently tested the service out, and they loved it. They said, "There is certainly something to be said about its ease of access and how much simpler using one system is."

Today, where so much of our personal and sensitive data is housed all over the Internet and malicious users are working their hardest to get their hands on it, any form of protection is worth a shot -- especially when it comes to your credit card data and email address!

Will you give MaskMe a try?

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