BBB holding 'Shred Day' on Saturday

ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) - Not only should adults be protecting themselves from identity theft, they should be protecting their children.

That's the word from the Better Business Bureau of Austin, and the task could be made easier on Saturday. From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., the BBB is hosting Shred Day at the Dell Round Rock Campus.

Bring old computers, hard drives, cell phones and up to five boxes of documents to be shredded.

Shredding documents, especially medical records, is also crucial to a person's future safety, Erin Dufner of the BBB said. Just throwing the documents in the trash or tearing them in half is not good enough.

Kathy Damman said her life and reputation were severely affected by identity theft.

"They had changed my entire person who I am," she said. "And it took at least two months to get it all straightened out."

Damman said she is now much more guarded with her information and the Better Business Bureau is urging people to put up the same walls.

In fact, the BBB said, recent studies suggest that children are 50 times more likely than adults to have the personal information pilfered by identity thieves.