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ID theft: Who's getting hold of your personal data?

Dec 16, 2003 1:15AM PST
Stop worrying about technology and start worrying about common sense...

Is the internet responsible for a rise in ID theft and credit card fraud? Will Sturgeon asks whether we should be paying more attention to the contents of our bins than the contents of our hard drives...

ID theft - along with associated crimes such as credit card fraud - is now reaching epidemic proportions aided by the variety of ways in which it can be committed both online and offline, but consumers intent on blaming technology, or those too wary to use it, may still be doing too little to protect themselves.

http://www.silicon.com/software/security/0,39024655,39117357,00.htm

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