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Stolen ID brought big tuition break
Source: Breaking News

Stealing someone's identity to qualify for in-state tuition is an interesting idea, but getting the educational record switched to your true identity can be tricky. Especially if, as a teenager, you used a septuagenarian's Social Security number.

Unfixed Glitch Gives Social Security Numbers Away
Source: wmur.com

- American Social Security numbers are being given away to foreigners thanks to a processing glitch the U.S. Social Security Administration didn't know existed and the federal government hasn't fixed.

Friend's Hijacked; Email Scam Targets Columbia Man
Source: WLTX.com News

Did you know that your email address could be just as valuable to a con artist as your social security number? Experts say email hijacking is on the rise. And information in your account can lead to your identity being stolen. Fred Campbell found out recently.....

S.S.N.

Here I am watching the local news at my uncle's house in Texas, and they mention something about social security numbers. About how they were assigned and that the Social Security Administration is thinking issuing randomized numbers in the future to help protect people's numbers.

How Social-Networking Sites Can Reveal Your Social Security Number
Source: Wall Street Journal

A new study says that mundane information like birthdays and hometowns on social-networking profiles can be used to accurately predict a user's Social Security number, a key to identity theft.

Why the Voting Rights Act Matter
Source: The New York Times

Using its authority under the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department has overturned two deeply flawed and discriminatory Georgia voting procedures.

Mistake puts millions into teen's bank account
Source: news14.com

17-year-old Jacquelyn Lockard went to a Marine Federal Credit Union ATM Feb. 12 to get some money when she saw there was $2.2 million in her account.

On 6-6-6:Bush Announces Mark of The Beast System-video
Source: YouTube

If you listen closely, you will hear our President suggest that it be mandatory for all working U.S. citizens to have a biometric identification card. I don't know if this is ends of times stuff, but I'm sure glad it's the end of Bush's administration.

Lawyer: Anti-ID Theft Service Pitchman Is a Victim Himself
Source: FOXNews.com

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Todd Davis has dared criminals for two years to try stealing his identity: Ads for his fraud-prevention company, LifeLock, even offer his Social Security number next to his smiling mug.

ID-protection ads come back to bite pitchman
Source: Yahoo! News

Todd Davis has dared criminals for two years to try stealing his identity: Ads for his fraud-prevention company, LifeLock, even offer his Social Security number next to his smiling mug.

Social Security Numbers on Sale by Thieves -- for $2
Source: ABC News

Fierce competition among identity thieves has driven the prices for stolen data down to bargain-basement levels, which has forced crooks to adopt mainstream business tactics to lure customers, according to a new report on Internet security threats. credit card theft

Guarding Your Social Security Number
Source: TIME

Listen up people, read this article so that you can understand your rights to not give away your social security number to every tomdickharrry that asks for it It's your life, protect it!!

Google sued for 'crimes against humanity'
Source: The Register

A Pennsylvania crusader has slapped Google with a $5bn lawsuit, claiming that the world's largest search engine is endangering his personal safety.

Bank Approves Loan To Man With Woman's Stolen Identity
Source: local6.com

A Central Florida woman found herself in a battle with a popular bank after it approved a sizeable loan for a man using her Social Security number....

For sale $5 - Your name, address, SSN, CCN, & PIN
Source: msnbc.com

For sale $5 - Your name, address, SSN, CCN, & PIN On the hunt for ID thieves

Think Your Social Security Number Is Secure? Think Again
Source: The New York Times

One by one, states and counties have started removing images of documents that contain Social Security numbers, or they are blocking out the numbers. Four states, including New York, have removed links to images of public documents containing Social Security numbers.

13 Easy Ways to Safeguard Your Privacy in 2007
Source: ICWT: In Corruption We Trust

Many Americans will make New Years resolutions to eat less, exercise more and become less bloated. What they should do instead is work on protecting the few civil rights and freedoms that they have left.

VA Hospital Loses Info
Source: The Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman

MUSKOGEE - More than 1,400 veterans are at risk for identity theft after the disappearance of three computer disks containing their Social Security numbers and other personal data.

The Woolworth Card: Abused By Over 40,000 People
Source: New Urban Legends

F. W. Woolworth Company, founded in 1878, operated as a dime store chain for over a century, was most likely the prelude to the ever popular dollar stores, and is known today as Footlocker, Inc.

Living without a State: Competitive Feedback Systems

For years I have been contemplating how society could exist in a truly free market of anarcho-capitalism, or what I call a Unanimocracy — governing by unanimous consent and contract.

Her ATM Card, But Her Impostor's Picture
Source: msnbc.com

"For years, Margaret Harrison believed she had an impostor. There were signs her Social Security number was living a double life. Four years ago, an unemployment office in West Virginia almost denied her claim, saying she already had a job at a horse farm in Chelan, Wash.

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