| Yuma lawmaker victim of ID theft
State Sen. Amanda Aguirre, who has made identity theft prevention one of her legislative priorities, says she became a victim of the crime earlier this month when a credit card of hers was used fraudulently. "My immediate thought was this couldn't be happening," Aguirre said. "It's a reality check that anyone can be a victim of identity theft." Aguirre said she received a call earlier this month on her cell phone from her credit card company, which wanted to confirm whether she had bought some shoes. The following day, she got another call asking whether she had bought what appeared to be clothing. Both transactions, which were made online, were done using her credit number. In total, the purchases amounted to more than $3,000. The purchases were ordered from stores in North Carolina and California and supposed to be mailed to addresses in those states.
Lost child records: your views
Do you really trust a government department (or for that matter anybody) with ALL your personal details plus biometrics? I don't. It is a recipe for disaster. pat said: Nov 20th, 2007 at 9:02 pm these disces were not sent by royalmail they were sent by T N T one of the companys trumpted by the goverment as the new way besty said: Nov 20th, 2007 at 9:51 pm this government are turning our country in to a banana republic,why don't the people of this country sue them there useless the lot of them it's time for a REAL change of government now,i bet the illegal asylum seekers where guarding these disc's. Marc said: Nov 20th, 2007 at 9:57 pm Nice to know the government are looking after our records (YEH WHATEVER) like the inland revenue buggering up all there so called high security work ( How many of you watched Watchdog on monday night on BBC 1) Too much technology, pity no one knows how to use it other than the identity fraudsters!!! I didn't have much faith in the government anyway, I suppose you can imagine how i feel now as well as 25 million other people! Geoff said: Nov 20th, 2007 at 9:57 pm Now, top reason for "NO ID cards"! Frank Jones said: Nov 20th, 2007 at 10:12 pm I'm not really worried because I'm sure this government will have taken the basic security step of making the information on the disks password protected.
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DHS and the State of Arizona Partner to Further Advance Secure Identification Initiatives
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Identity Theft
Nine little numbers can control your credit, your employment status and your financial good name. Personal identifying information, including Social Security numbers, leave a trail marking where we have worked, how much money we have spent and where we have spent it. In the age of thumb drives, CDs and the Internet, breaches of personal information are more prevalent than ever before. In 2006, tracking company PrivacyRights.org reported 327 data breach incidents. So far in 2007, the company reports 292 instances, including the 16,000 names and Social Security numbers lost from the University of Nevada, Reno. Although the company updates their list twice a week, they had not yet reported the 470 CDs lost by Nevada state agencies. In incidents ranging from TJ Max dumping records into a back-lot dumpster to laptops being stolen from businesses, the company reports that more than 215 million personal records have been breeched since 2005.
Calls for hate-crime rethink as anti-gay offences soar
The figures look like the problem is running out of control, but I think at least part of the reason for the increase is because the police are building more trust with the gay community." A study published earlier this year revealed that almost one in ten victims of homophobic attacks in Aberdeen failed to report incidents to the police. David Lyle, Scottish co-ordinator for the Gay Police Association, said human rights legislation that allowed people to express religious views freely was being used to perpetrate attacks on gay people. He said: "If you replace the word 'gay' with 'black' in these verbal attacks, there would - quite rightly - be a massive outcry. But it seems perfectly possible to abuse gay people and hide behind the supposed shield of 'because it's my religious belief'." Mr Lyle added that people were also suffering a backlash from religious groups to recent laws allowing so-called gay marriages and proposals to allow adoption by gay couples, a phenomenon Cardinal Keith O'Brien, leader of Scotland's Catholics, has described as a "distorted social experiment".
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