I follow Slashdot, sometimes. this post struck a chord with me, especially
after the press covered of the E&Y laptop losses.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/20/006211
<http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/20/006211&from=rss> &from=rss
I loved the response from the alleged Libertarian party. It is irony, so
many of the readership will have missed that!
The original post is as follows:
"Today, I received a letter from a student loan provider notifying me that
my name and social security number
<http://idtheft.about.com/od/2006/p/TG_Breach.htm> had been stolen along
with a contractor's computer. This makes -four- agencies that have lost my
personal information, in the last year. Today's letter was the most
disappointing yet: the company, Texas Guaranteed, did not offer any credit
report monitoring like the previous three had. Their advice? Send a letter
to the credit bureaus. Gee, thanks. Clearly, mass identity theft is
completely out of hand and there doesn't seem to be any government
regulation for handling these situations, nor does there seem to be any
punitive action against businesses that lose customers' data. Do we, as
consumers, have any recourse against these businesses?"
It made me think a lot about the reasons why the USA is not a safe haven for
EEA data.
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