Comments on: Google zeal breeds more identity theft risks http://www.onlinesecurityauthority.com/online-security-authority/google-zeal-breeds-more-identity-theft-risks/ Your Authority for Online Security in the next 5 years and beyond! Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:55:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Michael Durnack http://www.onlinesecurityauthority.com/online-security-authority/google-zeal-breeds-more-identity-theft-risks/comment-page-1/#comment-4596 Michael Durnack Tue, 15 May 2007 01:54:07 +0000 http://www.onlinesecurityauthority.com/?p=193#comment-4596 Public information is just that, public. We are not going to change public access to information that has always been available, unfortunately it is much easier to access. That is the priice we pay for our freedom. What we can do is limit our ongoing exposure by not providing information just because they ask. I have had 3 instances in the last month where I was asked for much more information than I felt the requestor needed. I refused to provide it and rec'd the services anyway. Washington is mounting an "attempt" with the release of the President's Identity Theft Task Force Report last month. But they too recognize you cannot chase someone half way around the globe for $1000. Part of the report places the responibility on the public. And they are right. How can they effectively stop this crime when people hand over the information? It is up to us to protect ourselves and defend our own identities. Nobody else is going to. Public information is just that, public. We are not going to change public access to information that has always been available, unfortunately it is much easier to access. That is the priice we pay for our freedom.

What we can do is limit our ongoing exposure by not providing information just because they ask. I have had 3 instances in the last month where I was asked for much more information than I felt the requestor needed. I refused to provide it and rec’d the services anyway.

Washington is mounting an “attempt” with the release of the President’s Identity Theft Task Force Report last month. But they too recognize you cannot chase someone half way around the globe for $1000. Part of the report places the responibility on the public. And they are right. How can they effectively stop this crime when people hand over the information?

It is up to us to protect ourselves and defend our own identities. Nobody else is going to.

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