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Privacy Concerns Getting Worse
A new study from the University of Southern California's Center for the Digital Future released yesterday found that for the first time in years there was a sharp increase in online privacy concerns amongst Americans, with 61% of adults concerned about privacy threats when buying online.
Hardly a surprise, when 2007 is now being described as the worst year on record for data breaches. And one of the reasons it’s only going to get worse is called “data utilization and optimization.”
Neal O'Farrell
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Never a good time to drop your guard
Perhaps as a warning to those id theft companies that broadcast their Social Security numbers as a way to prove how good their own security is, please take a humbling lesson from one of Great Britain’s best known auto journalists.
Jeremy Clarkson, host of Britain’s most popular TV show on everything cars, was recently so incensed by the uproar over a government employee losing the personal data of more than 25 million citizens, he published his bank account number and sort code in one of his newspaper columns and then dared anyone to use that information to steal his money or his identity.
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Should you pay for allowing identity theft to happen?
So what can the Estonian defense minister teach you about avoiding identity theft? After suffering a massive internet attack that disrupted its nation’s entire internet service, former Soviet block country Estonia recently suggested a draconian remedy that other security experts having been whispering quietly about for years – make users liable for security breaches caused by their carelessness.
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Shame on LifeLock
Anyone who’s read any of my columns on identity theft knows I don’t like LifeLock, the identity theft solution that offers to put a freeze on your credit report for more than $100 a year.
But every day I get more questions about LifeLock, often triggered by their extensive advertising that includes the CEO of the company broadcasting his Social Security for everyone to see.
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Do Federal ID theft statistics help or hurt?
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is out with yet another survey on the prevalence of identity theft in the US, and once more it troubles me.
I think that every good study of identity theft helps, because while many of them differ widely in their methods and results, we seem to learn something new from each one. But some of the lessons might be misleading.
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