“That said, a study issued last month found that Facebook members themselves were somewhat careless about safeguarding their privacy. IT security firm Sophos found that 41 percent of Facebook users surveyed were willing to give personal information – such as e-mail address, date of birth and phone number – to a complete stranger, greatly increasing their susceptibility to ID theft.” Charlie Taylor, on TheRegister
If you take that info (by phone, or scraped from social networking sites), and add it to the delivery address given on amazon’s wishlist, could it be all that an Identity thief would need to clone your ID…
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You make a very true statement. Why do people continue to post personal details online when they are less likely to provide those details to a stranger on the street? The Internet has made us more accessible and people have relaxed their guard. If you lose your identity online it can be recovered…. if you have bills run up in your good name – this can be recovered by the bank… so what’s the worry?
Well, we should know as we are leading the way in ‘education and awareness’. Problem is privacy is a reactive thing…. people will not do anything unless it does actually happen to them!
We want people to be ‘reactive’… plain and simple.
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