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Who can you trust with your personal info? Not the government.
Posted by Tonylewis • 11/20/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Hi all,
My latest news article was a bit of a shocker to me, 25 million people's personal information lost in the post, including bank details. Article is here= globalnewsblogger.com/?p=27
Let me know what you think, especially as identity theft is a growing crime everywhere now.
Tony:)
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Answer: You can trust nobody.
In the U.S. the Supreme Court has ruled, incredibly, that customers' personal records are NOT the property of the customer, but of the bank. This means that a good measure of privacy protection has been taken out of the hands of those most interested in protecting it: you.
It therefore, becomes necessary for all of us to study up, learn all of the con man's tricks, to better be able to protect ourselves. -
You can trust me now what your address dob and ss# please. -
Well, personal info is OK to get lost. Bank account details are not just personal info. That's disastrous. -
Hi all,
Agree with you Jack, it's weird how when we fill out our details for anything to do with social security or banks etc.... name,address,phone,NI Number(or SS Number if in U.S)is a requirement and we give them no questions asked because it is a requirement.
There should be a clause which REQUIRES those agencies to keep our information secret, instead when they lose people's information it seems ok for them to just say sorry. Yet if we were to fill the form in incorrectly that is a crime. What else is new.
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I trust putting my info on a document that will never be copied into a computer more than I trust one that will become digitized. Computers are just insecure, and really are not hard to get in to. Heck, wasn't there some swedish kid just a few months back that got into some US govt servers?
At least with papers someone who wants to steal your info has to physically be there - they can't be 70000 miles away sitting in front of a computer eating cheetos.-
LOL!
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Tony, it's not just the government. This is literally happening every day. Take a look at this: www.totalbankruptcy.com/risk_for_identity_theft.htm
Just scroll down the page and you'll get the idea.-
This is unsettling, isn't it? Yet in a digital society, what do we do? Privacy has no boundaries in this digital world.
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