From the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)
"All copies of child’s photograph and information should be maintained in an easily accessible, secure space by the parents or guardian. The photograph and data should not be stored in a public database."
"...be wary of gadgets and gimmicks that purport to protect your child or any sort of data-collection or registration services that store information about your child. To help ensure that others do not misuse this information, you as the parent should be the only person to keep this information about your child."
-- From the pamphlet, Just in Case; Parental guidelines in case your child might someday be missing.
"All copies of child’s photograph and information should be maintained in an easily accessible, secure space by the parents or guardian. The photograph and data should not be stored in a public database."
-- From the NCMEC Website, "The Importance of Photos."
With today's super technology, thousands of companies are storing more and more information in online databases. There are pros and cons to this. Banks, credit card companies, and even government entities are having to deal with security breaches on a daily basis. Even with firewalls and top IT Techs, these businesses are still being hacked, causing billions of dollars in lost information and sometimes even worse, Identity Theft.
Most child id companies input your child's information into a computer database and tell you that it will be deleted when the id is completed. If the company remembers to really delete the info, it can still be retrieved later on by even the most novice of computer savvy techies. Can you imagine what information could be taken about your child. All of their personal information along with address and phone numbers could end up in the hands of a criminal. Some companies even send out your child's information to a third party company who prints out and then mails back your id card. DIGIKIDS® processes your id on site in under 2 minutes. We never take anything off site to process.
If credit card companies with millions of dollars in security protection can get hacked into, so can these smaller mostly home based businesses. This is why the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children have set guidelines that all child id companies should adhere too. Unfortunately most don't. This is why DIGIKIDS® developed a patent pending solution that includes NDB2™ Technology; a fail safe method to ensure that no database of any child is ever created. So even if a hacker or thief were to ever gain access to our computers they would never be able to see any information about your child because no database was ever created! All of your child's personal information is safe in your hands and your hands only, just like NCMEC recommends.
