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[privacy] The King of Personal Data Giveaways: The U.S. Government
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:57:54 GMT
Via eMail Battles. [snip] America's universities admit that, in the first half of 2006, they let a million Social Security numbers slip through their fingers. Accountants, banks and brokerages have proven themselves to be half as competent at protecting your critical data, conceding to more than 1.9 million lost SSNs. And the health care industry fares even worse: 2.4 million. But the King of Data Giveaways, with over 40 million Social Security numbers stolen in just six months, is your government... local, state and federal. The raw data from Privacy Rights Clearinghouse's latest report bears me out. [snip] More here: http://www.emailbattles.com/archive/battles/idtheft_aaejhcjbai_hi/ - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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