It's so great to have you here on the Clark Howard Show where our mission is to serve you

with knowledge that empowers you to make better financial decisions in your life.

In today's show, I want to have been trying out a new app that promises to delete so much

of your digital footprint from lots and lots of places, lots of companies that love to have

our information and use it or sell it off.

I'm going to tell you my experience with it.

And later, Kristen and I each travel a lot.

There are a lot of cases now where I don't run a car where I use to and I do Uber and

Lyft and there's some stuff you need to know that's becoming really clear with using Uber

and Lyft that is important for your wallet and also for the reliability side of this.

We're going to talk that through.

So it's become a thing that a lot of us have just given up.

Our information is just out there and why should we do anything?

Well, I don't feel that way because I know our information is out there everywhere.

And everywhere it is is another opportunity for an identity thief to try to have a field

day as if they're us.

So I know it's a game of whack-a-mull but I play that game and now it's gotten easier

potentially because of money that Consumer Reports has poured into an app called Permission

Slip that you can download to your iPhone or Android and I downloaded it to my Samsung

phone.

And I use the app after I set it up registered and all that.

I use the app which is a pretty automated thing that pops up like digital cards and it'll

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