Even Those We Trust Can’t Be Trusted With Privacy Data

Here are a few examples:

• A postal worker on Long Island was arrested after he stole credit cards from his customers’ mail and ran up a tab on them.
• LendingTree.com informed its customers that a group of former employees shared confidential passwords with lenders that were unaffiliated with LendingTree and accessed data such as names, addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, income and employment information. 
• A couple in Minnesota were posting personal ads on Craigslist for sexual encounters and then stealing identities, checks, and credit card information to purchase merchandise and prescription drugs.

Who do you / can you trust in these days of rampant identity theft? As we’ve been discussing in class, there are a lot of ways that you can safeguard yourself–you just have to be vigilant.