Privacy Consumer Guide
They're watching you. If you subscribe to a magazine, register for a Web site, use a grocery store club card, belong to a gym, or participate in life in 1,000 other ways, corporations and marketers are passing around your personal data like so many baseball cards. This is a huge, multi-billion-dollar business.
That's why you get junk mail, spam and telemarketing calls (even after the Do Not Call list). And it's why some unethical businesses work hard to steal your personal info and use it to make purchases: corporations don't know you, they know your data. It makes fraud easy.
Privacy is a right. That right is under siege. Privacy Consumer Guide is your clearinghouse of information, tools, Web sites and more for protecting consumer privacy online and offline, and for securing your personal information against identity theft.
A New Law to Put the Bite on Identity Thieves
Identity theft is big business, accounting for $50 billion in fraudulent transactions in the United States. Most people have seen the credit card commercials that tell the story of some criminal who has hijacked and squandered the credit of a hard-working American. Now a second credit card company is running similar commercials. The ads are funny. The crime is not. Just ask any one of the ten million Americans affected in 2003 alone. Read More
Protect Yourself Against Internet Fraud
Most of the companies with whom you will potentially do business via the Internet are legitimate companies interested in providing you with the best products and services possible. But, as in all forms of commerce,there are swindlers and con artists just waiting to pounce on the unwary consumer. Read More
Identity Crisis... What to Do If Your Identity is Stolen
Maybe you never opened that account, but someone else did...someone who used your name and personal information to commit fraud. When an imposter co-opts your name, your Social Security number (SSN), your credit card number, or some other piece of your personal information for their use - in short, when someone appropriates your personal information without your knowledge - it's a crime, pure and simple. Read More
