Blackhawks Legend Victim of Identity Theft
If you are a hockey fan, or a Wayne's World fan, you are familiar with Stan Mikita. Someone added online checking to his account and stole 100,000 from the hockey legend and his wife. The one way to prevent this is to check your accounts regularly online. [story]
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FTC to look at Privacy in the Cloud
More and more data is moving into the cloud. The question remains of who is in charge of the data. The host of the service or the owner of the data? And exactly who owns data in the cloud. These are not easy questions as there are not established definitions. In the meantime every person and business needs to be aware of how their information is stored when they do not own the server. [report]
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Identity Theft and the Census
The 2010 census is underway. Every house will receive a survey by mail in the next few months. If not returned a census worker will go to the home to collect the data. Be aware that no form asks for personally identifiable information. If they are asking for social security numbers or other personally identifiable information then you have an impostor. The 10 census questions are available online.
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