Consumers are becoming increasingly aware that when they willingly share their personally identifiable information, vigilance and care is required to protect their data, one expert recently shared.

Eric Schurr, chief strategy officer for the Des Moines, Iowa-based credit card agent-issuer and advisory services firm TMG Financial Services, offered his thoughts on consumers' increasingly digital personal footprint before the WorldFuture 2016 conference.

To illustrate the point, Schurr shared a story of the day he logged into Amazon to update his payment credentials. He was surprised to see how many of his payment cards he had loaded into the service over the many years he had been a user.

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Roy Urrico

Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).

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