Sen. Schumer Pursues Database Vendors on Issue of ID Theft and Sale of Personal Data

What follows is a group of recent, relevant articles and documents associated with the escalating critical evaluation of database aggregation and sale of personal data and associated digital scams and ID theft.

  • From the New York Times, Senator Says Data Service Has Lax Rules for Security
  • From the Washington Post, Databases Called Lax With Personal Information
  • Press release by Sen. Charles Schumer: Egregious Loophole Makes Millions Of Soc. Sec Numbers Accessible At Touch Of Computer Button; Potential For Identity Theft Enormous, and a link to the letter (PDF) sent by the Senator to the President/CEO of Thomson West (mistakenly referred to as Thompson), “asking that an egregious loophole in their Internet-based ‘People-Find’ be disabled for use by its clients.”
  • From PBS.org, Stealing Identities.
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    Posted in: Cybercrime, E-Government, ID Theft, Privacy
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