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Cocospy: A Complete Guide To Child’s Online Security in 2022


Today, many individuals use the Internet in daily life, including children. Learn more about children's online security here: https://www.cocospy.com/blog/a-complete-guide-to-childs-online-security.html

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It's Me and You: The Smith Investigation Agency Inc. : largest female owned private investigative agency in Canada operating from coast to coast.


The Smith Investigation Agency Inc. is a nationally known and trusted private investigative agency operating across Canada. We provide surveillance, investigative research, T.S.C.M. (bug-sweeps), cyber investigations and training. The Smith Investigation Agency is the largest female owned private investigative agency in Canada operating from coast to coast.

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Lions Magazine: What Can You Achieve in Six Months? 10 Entrepreneurs Share Their Goals


If you want to avoid getting stuck and spinning your wheels, you need a plan for the future. Learn more about what 6 months can do for you.

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Reader's Digest: 10 Ways to Stop Porch Pirates From Stealing Your Packages


Here are 10 ways to stop porch pirates from stealing any of your home deliveries.

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Insurance Providers: Importance of Cyber Insurance for Businesses


Not having cyber insurance can devastate a small company that can't afford the cost of data recovery and legal fees after a cyberattack. Read on to learn about the benefits of having cyber insurance.

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Best Life: Leaving This Outside Your Home Is Inviting Burglars In, Experts Warn


There is one thing that many people leave outside their house that makes them a more attractive target for burglars. Read on to find out if you're guilty of this home safety hazard.

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House of Hives: Has Leadership Transformed Through Lockdown?


I asked 25 entrepreneurs and small business owners how their understanding of leadership has changed throughout running their business and especially in the last few years. Here is what I learned.

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StarCentral: Entrepreneur Spotlight: Meet Whitney Smith, The President Of The Smith Investigation Agency


Whitney Smith is the president of The Smith Investigation Agency, the largest female-owned Private Investigation company in Canada. Her business is currently operating in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. The Smith Investigation agency provides services such as surveillance, investigative research, GPS Tracking Devices, Technical Surveillance Countermeasure Services (TSCM). Whitney has been in the private investigative industry for nearly fifteen years and previously worked in the bailiff industry. Learn more about her journey here.

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Course Method : How Whitney Joy Smith Grew Her Agency to be the Largest Female-Owned Private Investigation Company in Canada


Whitney Joy Smith, President of Smith Investigation Agency. The Smith Investigation Agency is the largest female-owned Private Investigation company in Canada. I’ve been in the private investigative industry for nearly fifteen years and previously worked in the bailiff industry. Learn more here.

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Go Banking Rates: How To Protect Your Identity and Your Wallet on Cyber Monday


With online shopping trumping in-store retail this holiday season, cybercriminals will have no shortage of potential victims to target. And they’ve only gotten smarter and more nefarious over the past year. Learn methods to help protect yourself here.

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Upfront Ottawa: 6 Overlooked Security Precautions We All Need To Take


Whether you’re a business owner or a private citizen, the reality is we are all susceptible to risks each and every day. It’s just a part of life. An employee could commit fraud against your company, a cybersecurity breach could compromise your position as an industry leader, or your identity could be stolen. With so much sensitive information stored online today, a lot can change in the span of a moment. Fortunately, there are steps that both business owners and citizens can take to minimize their vulnerability against threats, both online and offline. Read on to learn how to better protect yourself and your business operations with these commonly overlooked security precautions that we should all take.

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Upfront Ottawa: Everything You Need To Know About Starting A Business – The Smith Investigation Agency


Challenges to building a business aren’t limited to financing, consumer bases, and planning. In every industry, there are factors that present themselves as obstacles for a start-up. In order to make a splash on the scene, businesses have to have a unique selling point or provide something innovative, which might conflict with “the way things are done” in that industry. Whitney Joy Smith, President of The Smith Investigation Agency, tells us what it was like trying to build a private investigation agency built on integrity in an industry with a bad reputation.

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The Simple Dollar: How to Protect Yourself From COVID-19 Financial Scams


Scamming attempts are on the rise as more people seek financial assistance online, due to the Coronavirus. Data from the Federal Trade Commission shows Americans have already lost nearly $70 million to pandemic scams since the beginning of the year.

“Many have been filing for unemployment benefits, so when a call or email comes in pretending to respond to your inquiry, it might be harder to differentiate between who is real and fake,” says Jade Hickton, Private Investigator at Smith Training Centre. Learn how to detect the warning signs to avoid falling for these fraudulent crimes.

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CreditCards.com: Credit card scams in the time of coronavirus


As if coronavirus hasn’t done enough to ravage people’s financial lives, consumers also must beware of new fraud schemes that have developed with the pandemic.
Scammers always keep up with the times, and this is no exception.

Keep reading to learn about the newest scams related to the pandemic – and most important, how to protect yourself from them.

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INSIDER: Teens are looking for total strangers to be their 'Internet Best Friends' and creating dramatic meet-up videos once they make a match


A best friend is wonderful, but a bff who you meet online, AKA an Internet Best Friend (IBF), is the end goal for many tweens and teens these days.

Turning to TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram, tweens and teens who have been trapped at home are looking for fast friendships with other young users who aren't already paired with an IBF. Deprived of IRL friends, they're finding new besties online, despite safety concerns.

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Digital Privacy News: Wearable Devices Bring Many Privacy Issues


You have your Fitbit, Apple Watch or whatever wearable serves as a personal trainer of sorts. Kudos for your quest for fitness.

You have good intentions, but others see opportunity in that band on your wrist: It’s loaded with data.

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VPNRanks: Cybersecurity Awareness for Employees: Tips and Best Practices


The greatest tragedy with scientific and technological advancement is that it advances at a much faster rate than does society’s collective wisdom. This is what Isaac Asimov essentially said a few decades ago when commenting on the relationship between science and society.

Fast forward to today, the internet has become an essential component of pretty much every aspect of modern life from the personal sphere to the professional. Despite our increasing dependence on the internet, it is surprising that cybersecurity awareness remains largely ignored.

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Best Company: 10 Expert Tips to Help You with Password Management


Unfortunately, not everyone practices proper password management.

And, in this digital age, how you manage your passwords can be the ultimate determining factor between staying safe and falling victim to identity theft and other serious cybercrimes.

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HuffPost: 5 Census Scams To Watch Out For In 2020


This year, Americans will be asked to participate in the 2020 census, a process that occurs every 10 years. While you should expect to be contacted by the U.S. Census Bureau in the coming weeks (and maybe you already have), it’s also a time to watch out for scammers pretending to represent the census.

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Reader's Digest: Facebook Messenger Scams Are on the Rise—Here’s How to Protect Yourself


Facebook Messenger scams are "rare," according to Facebook. Our experts say otherwise. Whichever is true, falling for one can be devastating. Here's what to look for and how to avoid falling for them.

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Reader's Digest Canada: 18 Secrets to Steal from People Who Never Get Hacked


Cybercrime is a massive problem that doesn’t look like it’s going to get better anytime soon. Cybersecurity Ventures’ latest annual report estimates that cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021.

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Smart Social: Why Every Family Needs a Password Manager


A password manager creates and stores unique passwords across every website or account you have. When you use a password manager, like Dashlane, you create a single “master” password (that you remember) to access the manager and then the manager creates and stores the rest.

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Thrive Global: Female Disruptors: Whitney Joy Smith Is Shaking Up How We Think Of Private Investigators


As a part of our series about women who are shaking things up in their industry, I had the pleasure of interviewing Whitney Joy Smith, President of The Smith Investigation Agency and Smith Training Centre.

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BeenVerified: What Are Lottery Scams? Protect Yourself From Fraud


Maybe you get a letter, email or phone call telling you that you won a massive prize, like tens of thousands of dollars, a luxury yacht or merchandise for life. You’re excited and ready for the next step.

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Forbes: Don’t Fall For These New Social Security Phone Scams


A troubling new report suggests that a dreaded strain of phone scam targeting Social Security numbers is on the rise.

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How-To Geek: How to Protect Your Identity Online


When Sandra Bullock starred in The Net in 1995, identity theft seemed new and unbelievable. But the world has changed. Starting in 2017, nearly 17 million Americans are victims of identity fraud every year.

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Huffington Post: What To Do If Your Email, Passwords Or Bank Info Were Found On The Dark Web


These days, data breaches are nothing new. It seems like only a matter of time until a hacker gets their hands on your credit information, passwords and other sensitive data that can be used to steal your identity.

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Cosmopolitan: The 7 Wildest Cheating Stories, from a Private Investigator


Whenever a celebrity’s cheating pics are plastered all over tabloids, the internet implodes. But for a private investigator, capturing an affair on tape is just part of a normal workday.

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Reader’s Digest: 18 Sneaky Signs You’re Actually Reading Fake News


While a wise man once said, “there’s a sucker born every minute,” you don’t have to be the sucker when it comes to fake news if you follow these tips from our savviest media experts.

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Bustle: 11 Fascinating Ways To Tell If Your Partner Is Cheating, According To Private Detectives


If you think your partner is cheating, it’s always a good idea to trust your gut so you don’t end up getting hurt. Of course, that doesn’t mean you need to assume the worst or jump to conclusions. But you still might want to do like private investigators do, and gather more information.

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American Express: How Business Owners Can Help Prevent Workplace Discrimination


Having a plan against workplace discrimination can help avoid issues from occurring at your company, according to these business owners.

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Business.com: How to Find Anyone's Business Email Address


For business purposes, there are times when the best way to get in touch with someone is by email. But if you are trying to reach someone you don't know, finding their email address isn't always the easiest task, since they often aren't publicly posted. However, that doesn't mean they're impossible to find. Here's how you can find anyone's business email.

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Safety.com: 6 Apps that Could Save Your Teenager’s Life


Being a parent is both rewarding and stressful, and being the parent of a teenager has the added stress of round-the-clock concern for their safety as they venture out more and more on their own. And these concerns are valid.

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Authority Magazine: Whitney Joy Smith of The Smith Investigation Agency: Why We Need More Women Founders & Here Is What We Are Doing To Make That Happen


We are natural-born leaders and have the ability to get things done. We can multitask like there is no tomorrow and can handle high-stress situations calmly and make rash decisions. In business, you have to be calm, process accurately, respond in humility with clients, and be friendly. Women just encompass all the things that being a boss requires.

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Lifewire: Why All Social Networks Should Make Kids’ Accounts Private By Default


Instagram is making kids’ accounts safer. So why don’t all social media networks do the same?

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Lifewire: The 7 Best Police Scanners of 2021


The best police scanners are easy to set up and use, providing clear audio quality on a broad range of frequencies. These devices let you stay on top of local events and ahead of the curve in several potentially dangerous situations. You can also use a police scanner to stay abreast of local news before it's reported on television, you can get weather alerts and find out about an impending natural disaster, or you can tune into amateur radio channels. The best police scanners can also serve as an alternative to a standalone CB radio or radar detector, so read on to see your options.

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