October 14, 2008 at 8:28 am
There are services to try and clean up data about you, but the best you can do is limit things. You can monitor your name, though, and it might be easier for you to detect things.
It's hard for me to tell if my data is compromised.
July 25, 2013 at 12:10 am
No one is interested in reading old stuff!
July 25, 2013 at 9:41 am
paolo.pedron (7/25/2013)
No one is interested in reading old stuff!
Do you wonder how many who read the blog posted back in 2008 thought about or actually started farming IDs? In today's thinking it is still not far fetched and possible. Companies are trying to removed Ghosts, however they still exist and people morph between identities both live and dead everyday.
And it is interesting tome that the more we try to gather information about people so that we can tell if they are real people or not the more information we supply to individuals who want to change their identity. Really all they have to do to create a new person is to have one institution believe one lie one time and then they have a hook to hang dozens of things on to further create that new persona. If you do not believe you have new ghosts every day then please review the list of voters, people receiving social security, or food stamps. And think how often we find about the surviving spouse who is still claiming the dead spouse's checks or benefits long after they are dead without ever telling the source of those items that the person had died.
People farming IDs? You bet!
Not all gray hairs are Dinosaurs!
August 7, 2013 at 2:31 am
Silly thing is that whenever I go to an interview or talk to an agency I stress that I don't have an on line profile. Mainly because I have companies asking me strange things at interview or asking did I work at company xyz?
And as for likeness even my sister and friends has been thrown by other people looking like me. Happened in various towns and cities I have lived in.
Gets to be a bit of a worry that others will quite easily see what they want despite the evidence.
"Imitation is the best form of flattery!" :w00t:
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