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Privacy in peril: Tips on protecting your privacy

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Consumer and advocate groups have provided various different ways to help consumers protect their personal data. Citizens should lookout for pretexting, should not use the Social Security number (SSN) or birth date as a password and should use a prepaid disposable cell phone and other 'opt-out' tools to protect the information.

Author: Clemmitt, Marcia
Publisher: Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
Publication Name: CQ Researcher
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1056-2036
Year: 2006
Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Privacy, Privacy issue, Access control, Civil rights, Identification numbers, Personal, Personal identification numbers, Civilians

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Privacy in peril: Database era

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The dangers posed by massive databases, which are filled with information used by businesses and government, are not known to the masses on a large scale. However, the US has no privacy law, unlike other industrial nations, to protect the data due of the limitations present in the Privacy Act.

Author: Clemmitt, Marcia
Publisher: Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
Publication Name: CQ Researcher
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1056-2036
Year: 2006
Government domestic functions, Management dynamics, Management, Privacy, Right of, Right of privacy, Company business management, Domestic policy, Personal information

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Subjects list: United States, Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation
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