Cyber criminals are alive, well, and busy stealing identities. PC World has a good article, How Your Identity Gets Swiped Even if You're Careful, by Dan Tynan online at http://www.pcworld.com/article/2050328/how-your-identity-gets-swiped-even-if-youre-careful.html
According to the article, three of the largest data mining companies, LexisNexis, Dunn & Bradstreet, and Kroll Background America Inc., have been hacked. The site, SSNDOB, is selling personal identifiers on the black market. The only way to know if our personal data has been compromised is to order a free credit check. Information on ordering the credit check is online at https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp
To learn more about privacy rights thefts, go to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse at http://www.privacyrights.org/data-breach/new
I use the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse as a learning activity in the informatics courses I teach for Chapter 24 on Legal and Ethical Issues. I ask the students to find three information breaches and then to discuss how the breaches could be prevented. The positive feedback on the assignment is awesome.
According to the article, three of the largest data mining companies, LexisNexis, Dunn & Bradstreet, and Kroll Background America Inc., have been hacked. The site, SSNDOB, is selling personal identifiers on the black market. The only way to know if our personal data has been compromised is to order a free credit check. Information on ordering the credit check is online at https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp
To learn more about privacy rights thefts, go to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse at http://www.privacyrights.org/data-breach/new
I use the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse as a learning activity in the informatics courses I teach for Chapter 24 on Legal and Ethical Issues. I ask the students to find three information breaches and then to discuss how the breaches could be prevented. The positive feedback on the assignment is awesome.
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