identity protection
Here's a link to an NYT story about identity theft prevention in the digital age (sometimes the NYT links don't work because they don't allow to read archived stories for free).
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/03/technology/circuits/03basics.html?pagewanted=2&th&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1131033775-PilFkarR5qLT82kAM3mFeA
While I've never really given much thought to the process of stealing someone's identity/information that is stored digitally, I found this interesting. It's true that data destruction often gets overlooked and that you often think throwing something in the computer's trash can means it's gone forever. The article is about different security measures that can be taken to totally erase information from a hard drive. (What kind of information that has to do with someone's core identity, like their social security number, is even on a hard drive?). It's unfortunate that we need to take more and more precautions to protect ourselves digitally from thieves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/03/technology/circuits/03basics.html?pagewanted=2&th&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1131033775-PilFkarR5qLT82kAM3mFeA
While I've never really given much thought to the process of stealing someone's identity/information that is stored digitally, I found this interesting. It's true that data destruction often gets overlooked and that you often think throwing something in the computer's trash can means it's gone forever. The article is about different security measures that can be taken to totally erase information from a hard drive. (What kind of information that has to do with someone's core identity, like their social security number, is even on a hard drive?). It's unfortunate that we need to take more and more precautions to protect ourselves digitally from thieves.
posted by Jeremy and Ashley Wood at 8:25 AM
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and note also in the times a story on no fewer than 7 bills in congress designed to stem identity theft and to better secure personal data.
Anyone selling over the Internet or collecting information via the Internet, which includes email, will be affected by whatever law comes out of this legislative sausage factory. All seven can be found
full-text at http://thomas.loc.gov.
They are:
S. 768 Comprehensive Identity Theft Prevention Act
S. 1326 Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act
S. 1408 Identity Theft Protection Act
S. 1461 Consumer Identity Protection and Security Act
S. 1789 Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2005
H.R. 3997 Financial Data Protection Act
H.R. 4127 Data Accountability and Trust Act
Many of these attempt to provide clarity in the law, for data security so far has been dealt with in piecemeal approach, not unlike most other Internet-related or Internet-impacted areas of law.
hyperlink TO the Times rather than posting the nine-yard URL, which you see crawls across your sidebar navigation.
do this by inserting the HTML coding that follows, after removing the curly-cue brackets, which i inserted so blogger.com wouldn't turn my instruction into a hyperlink (which it still might do, let's see .....)
{text you wish linked }
oh well, blogger did it anyway. to see the code, CONTROL & Apple mouse click (or on PC right click) >> View Source.
or ask me in class
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