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Mobile Tracking: July 2005
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Updates to the chapter from The Identity Theft Protection Guide. On tracking that follows you wherever you go. A lot about gadgets. Saturday, July 02, 2005. As I noted in the March newsletter, Oregon is considering implementing a mileage tax to replace a tax on gas bought at the pump. They’ve gone one step further to making this happen. Let’s hope those refinements make a lot of potentially invasive information colection worthwhile. Otherwise, a pretty reasonable system could be built upon simply che...
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Credit Reporting: November 2004
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Updates to the chapter from The Identity Theft Protection Guide. On credit reporting, your key to getting just about anything you want in an information age. Wednesday, November 10, 2004. The FTC has issued another ruling to bring last year's law regulating the credit reporting agencies when it comes to ID theft into force. There were two important things to know about:. Posted by AmandaWelsh @ 6:33 PM. List of all Kinds. Archives for credit reporting.
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Credit Reporting: February 2005
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Updates to the chapter from The Identity Theft Protection Guide. On credit reporting, your key to getting just about anything you want in an information age. Saturday, February 26, 2005. Last summer, the ACLU released a mock telephone recording. While this might have seemed a fanciful and humorous attempt to show the degree to which our privacy could be invaded, a recent news report. She quickly found her account frozen until she could verify her identity with her card provider, Providian. There is a lot...
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Credit Reporting: FTC issues Final Ruling on FACTA (or How Everyone Can Get a Free Copy of Their Credit Reports)
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Updates to the chapter from The Identity Theft Protection Guide. On credit reporting, your key to getting just about anything you want in an information age. Saturday, July 31, 2004. FTC issues Final Ruling on FACTA (or How Everyone Can Get a Free Copy of Their Credit Reports). In late June, the FTC issued its ruling on exactly how TransUnion, Equifax and Experian were going to have to supply free credit reports to each and every one of us. Midwestern states (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mi...
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Banking and Money: August 2004
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Updates to the chapter from The Identity Theft Protection Guide. On how money works when it's all digital, how banks track your money and what those huge "financial supermarkets" are up to. Tuesday, August 24, 2004. Protecting Important Numbers (another kind of PIN). Details, is reassuringly exhaustive. Now, if only those of us who choose PIN's that people can easily guess or write the PIN on the actual ATM card or type it into phishing emails or don't watch out for shoulder surfing would just be as care...
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Identity Theft: November 2004
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The biggest worry in an information age. Updates to the chapter from The Identity Theft Protection Guide. On what id theft is, why you might be the next victim and what to do to change that. Wednesday, November 10, 2004. The FTC has issued another ruling to bring last year's law regulating the credit reporting agencies when it comes to ID theft into force. There were two important things to know about:. Posted by AmandaWelsh @ 6:01 PM. Still think locking your mailbox is the way to protect yourself?
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Identity Theft: Can it be we can't trust corporations with our identity?
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The biggest worry in an information age. Updates to the chapter from The Identity Theft Protection Guide. On what id theft is, why you might be the next victim and what to do to change that. Saturday, February 26, 2005. Can it be we can't trust corporations with our identity? Also posted in All the Rest, originally appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, 2/25/05. Given growing evidence that corporations are a big part of this problem, it’s pretty easy to see that small Band-Aid fixes such as locking mai...
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Direct Marketing: More on the Wireless Directory
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Updates to the chapter from The Identity Theft Protection Guide. On that good old American invention, direct marketing. New tricks in the battle to balance the junk. Friday, September 17, 2004. More on the Wireless Directory. 11% of cell phone users aren’t at all worried about privacy invasions from the proposed wireless directory. 52% say it’s okay with them as long as somebody promises some kind of privacy protection. So says a survey recently released by the Pierz Group. Posted by AmandaWelsh @ 8:52 AM.
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Identity Theft Protection Guide: December 2004
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Identity Theft Protection Guide. Updates to my book. On stuff consumers and citizens of a technology-driven world need to know about. Without the hype or paranoia. Call it consumer protection for the 21st century. Sunday, December 26, 2004. Credit Reports That Are REALLY Free. Consumers in the Midwest can get their reports starting March 1, 2005; those in Southern states starting June 1, 2005; and anyone living on the East Coast is eligible starting September 1, 2005. Posted by AmandaWelsh @ 7:24 AM.
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Government Records: Why you should worry about more than an audit from the IRS
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Updates to the chapter from The Identity Theft Protection Guide. On just what Big Brother knows and who he tells it to. This is the bread and butter everday tracking. For more on the really scary Homeland Security stuff, see the surveillance updates. Saturday, April 30, 2005. Why you should worry about more than an audit from the IRS. Clearly since we have no choice about giving tax information to the government, they have a serious responsibility to protect us from harm as a result of doing so. (It’...