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  Bob, 28 Jun 2005 @ 9:56am

  
  

  The Solution

  The battle against identity theft hasn't even begun, as no one really knows where to start. There's no U.S. law that allows you to either copyright or trademark your identity, nor treat it as anything but simple information in a computer file. This is where it must begin.
  
  It's ironic but here is a case where extending all those draconian copyright laws to include your identity as a protected work could actually help you. Or something new similar to this.
  
  Once such a law would pass, then the public would finally have recourse to sue the 'information brokers' for damages for abuse of their identity or profile.
  
  It's only then that things will begin to change. Otherwise, they will stay as they are.

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    Ivan Sick, 28 Jun 2005 @ 11:29am

    
    

    Re: The Solution

    Won't work. Every 'broker' (like your bank) will include in its 700-line contract, that you must sign upon using their services, a clause stating that you allow them to do whatever they want with your info. This will be basically the same as the note in the "privacy policy" (that you get when you sign up for phone service [or most other things these days]) that says your information will only be used for business purposes. "Business purposes" /should/ mean record keeping within the company, but really includes sale of data--they make money selling your name, address and SSN, it's "business".

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      Lawyer Joe, 29 Jun 2005 @ 8:02am

      
      

      Re: The Solution = CLASS ACTION SUIT

      
      
      CLASS ACTION SUIT ANYONE ?
      
      Where the hell are the ambulance chasers ?

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  secret squirrel, 30 Jun 2005 @ 11:21am

  
  

  Sounds like politics doesn't it

  What else can you say about this. Just remember to practice what is your only defence. Garbage in, Garbage out. Give anyone as little information as possible, and in any legal fashion, make the rest just wrong. That is your only way to address compilers of your data.

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  consumer theft, 18 Mar 2006 @ 10:42am

  
  

  serious problem

  Politics gave him the bonus. As for the id theft protection service, when life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. I think it was smart thinking on their part.

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