And I’d rather hand it over than not have an early heads-up that my passport or credit card details have been leaked.Īs you can see below, you can only monitor 10 email addresses if you have auto-renewal disabled. You might feel slightly uneasy handing this info over but, frankly, I’d rather hand it to McAfee than some of the ID protection startups that haven’t built up a reputation for trustworthiness over the years. The score increases as you add an email address to monitor, for example.Īgain, if you have auto-renewal enabled for your subscription, you’ll find you can enter all your details, including passports, phone numbers, tax IDs, national IDs, credit cards, usernames, bank accounts and health IDs. Initially, you might consider it a gimmick, but instead of being yet another form of gamification, it’s designed to ensure you’re using all the features on offer, as well as guiding you through setting it all up. McAfee says it will be added to the apps in the next few months. It’s the main way to manage the details you’re protecting and the only way (currently) to see the new Protection Score. We’ve talked about ID protection already, but it’s worth also talking about the new web portal. On iOS at least, this was an impossible task when I tried: it wouldn’t accept the activation code and wouldn’t accept the codes presented on the web page displayed prior to installing the app. Of course, ID protection is now baked into the apps on both Android and iOS.Īnnoyingly, the QR code you can scan to install the app doesn’t contain your user ID, so you have to enter a ‘subscription code’ to use the apps.

That’s a bit drastic, especially if you like or need the app in question, so there are also options to edit the permissions and restrict them to what you consider essential. There’s also a privacy check that scans installed apps for the permissions they’ve been granted and warns you when they are “accessing an unusually high amount of personal info”, along with a big button to delete the app.

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