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After being robbed recently, I thought of what I should have done to improve my “data” protection.

I have been lucky because no personal data has been robbed. Robbers only took some “materials” that will be replaced.

Nevertheless, I had some difficulties with these things. First I did not have all invoices. So I had to call a lot of shops to retrieve invoices copies or certificates.

So my advices are:

• Have all invoices stored in a safe place
• Make a copy of all invoices and store them in another place
• Put the serial number of everything with invoices
• Take pictures of these things and keep them with invoices

Of course you could do that electronically:

• Scan all your invoices
• Put digital photography with them (try to have the serial number on the pictures)
• Write serial numbers of them in a text file
• Backup these files to an external hard drive
• Backup these files on an protected web site

You should also follow the process with this kind of data:

• Any official paper (passport, property acts, …)
• Personal photographies
• etc…

Let’s hope these advices will help you in the future. I have started to write software to help me to ”industrialize” the process. I will post them on a page on this blog when they will be ready. I hope they will help someone in the future.

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