Your Life For Sale on the Internet

Top Tech News has done an in depth article covering the availability of personal information online. The article seems somewhat alarmist in some places, but, nevertheless, has some good information in it. From the article Forget shredding your mail or worrying about who might have a copy of a recent credit card transaction. You have […]

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Feds Want Simpler Privacy Notices

In an attempt to make the privacy notices of banks and other financial institutions easier to read, Federal regulators are attempting to overhaul the requirements that govern these notices. All this according to an article in Computer World. From the article — Federal regulators today released a prototype privacy notice designed to make it easier […]

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LA County Issues ID Theft Warning to 94,000

CBS News is reporting that LA County has sent out a warning to 94,000 residents about possible identity theft after documents containing their confidential information were publicly exposed in January. From the article — The documents were left next to a recycling bin in a parking garage outside a Department of Public Social Services office […]

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