How To Protect Yourself From Identity Theft
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkThursday, March 9, 2006
A corporate attorney, with first hand experience of identity theft, formulated guidelines for the employees in his company. It contains very useful and non-trivial advice and information to protect yourself from identity theft. Read the article in the Phil Law Blog and preferably print it and keep a copy for emergency, especially the numbers at the end. It focusses on the offline identity theft dangers and how you can protect yourself.
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March 9, 2006: 1:47 pm
He seems to be focused only on preventing interception of sensitive identifying information. I’ve had two (at least) instances of identity theft against me, and in both cases it was unauthorized use by people employed at places where I had legitimately given my information. One was a major credit card company (you’ve seen their ads on TV), the other was a small home rental firm. Neither case was a scam; in both cases it was just one bad employee who stole the identifying information. We have reached the point where “single-factor” authentication is no longer sufficient for many purposes. Relying on “what you know” isn’t good enough. If I need to identify myself to you for some reason, then once I have done so you will have enough information to misrepresent yourself as being me to someone else. |
Doug