well, if you want privacy, why not call John Poindexter and ask him how he's going to insure it? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28432.html - bill mccall - -----Original Message----- From: Seth Arnold [mailto:sarnold@private] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:19 AM To: 'CRIME list ' Subject: Re: CRIME Fwd: [Fwd: Eugene says "NO!" to USA PATRIOT act] On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:26:53AM -0500, St. Clair, James wrote: > As long as somewhere along the way to this "totalitarian" government, we > figure a way to protect my identity from thieves in this country and the > outsourced credit offices in India and elsewhere. > > 750,000 complaints are expected concerning identity theft in 2003, far more > than the number of people who can expect "loss of liberty" under the patriot > act. Initial useful steps would be asking our elected representatives to try to follow the European Union's lead and enact useful privacy laws. The EU forbids personal data collected by companies in the EU to be exported to foreign companies in nations without similarly strict privacy laws. This would automatically prevent the outsourced credit offices in India. (Though it would likely only provide reasonably huge penalties for the recent New York case involving the identify theft of 30,000.. Hopefully, also for the idiotic company whose policy of not revoking old passwords when employees left the organization allowed this to happen.) It is my opinion that the Patriot Act is in direct opposition to useful privacy laws. So I'd argue that reversing the Patriot Act would be a necessary step to reducing identify theft. -- http://sardonix.org/ **************************************************************************** This message is intended for the sole use of the individual and entity to whom it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended addressee, nor authorized to receive for the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete the message. Thank you very much.
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