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[Emergent Chaos: Musings from Adam Shostack on security, privacy, and economics] (Lauren W) Ironically, it's true that the probability of lost backup tapesbeing used opportunistically for ID theft is probably fairly low,at least in comparison to all the "ID theft supermarkets" that areout there -- crooked commercial and government employees willing tosell access to their files, Internet-based ID theft rings, and so on.

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http://politicsofprivacy.blogspot.com [Politicsofprivacy.blogspot.com] Politics of Privacy Blog: Undoubtedly spurred on by the experience of Nazi totalitarianism in the 1930s and 40s and the example of the Communist surveillance state GDR as next door neighbour, (then) West-German politicians were early adopters of comprehensive data protection legislation in the 1970s. In the early 1980s the Federal Constitutional Court further strengthened German citizens' protection by acknowledging a "right of informational self-determination".

Consumersunion.org[Consumersunion.org] 10 million Americans at risk of ID theft from data security breaches: – Since ChoicePoint Inc., announced last February that sensitive records it maintained about consumers had fallen into the hands of crooks, nearly 10 million Americans have been put at risk of identity theft from such data security breaches. Consumers Union and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse called on lawmakers today to enact legislation requiring notice to individuals whose information has been exposed through a security breach, stricter data security practices for information brokers, and tougher safeguards to thwart identity thieves.

[Compliancepipeline.com] Compliance Pipeline | ID Theft: Despite all the headlines about the growing problem of identity theft, most financial institutions that provide credit cards are doing an inadequate job of attacking the problem, focusing on resolution rather than prevention and detection, according to a report released this week by Javelin Strategy & Research.

Infoworld.comhttp://www.infoworld.com [Infoworld.com] Liberty seeks to define ID theft by creating lexicon | InfoWorld ...: Liberty is also considering producing generic educational material on ID theft that its members could then customize and brand with their own corporate identities and distribute to other enterprises and consumers, he said. The alliance will later investigate if any additional technological component needs to be developed to help in combating ID theft.

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