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...quickest way to become a victim of identity theft is to let your Social Security number (SSN) fall into the wrong hands. That's why a group of employees are suing Union Pacific Railroad over the casual way the company used the numbers to ID workers--a practice that became a real issue in April when a computer with the names and numbers of 30,000 employees was stolen. In May someone made off with a laptop containing the SSNs of 26.5 million people on file at the Department of Veterans Affairs--which suggests that it's more important than...
...your log-in to access work schedules (one of the complaints in the Union Pacific case). With the rise in identity theft, companies, including UP, are starting to change their ways. Consider asking your personnel and IT departments to give you a different employee number. Citing stats on ID theft might help your case...
...harassment by Shi'ite policemen and government officials. Others have met a more gruesome fate. In a single incident last earlier this year, the bodies of 14 Omars were found in a Baghdad garbage dump. They had all been killed with a single bullet to the head, and their ID cards were placed carefully on their chests. It has, says Saleh Mutlak, a prominent Sunni politician, "become the most dangerous name in Iraq...
BEIJING—Three objects sit on my desk: a Chinese-English dictionary, a lamp, and my computer. For anyone who knows me, this is an anomaly in the extreme. I have an innate incapability to have a clean desk; one memorable winter, I lost my ID twice under the stacks of papers and books that inevitably cover it by mid-semester. Yet it’s almost halfway through the summer semester here at Beijing Language and Culture University, and my tabletop remains freakishly clean. Ostensibly, my monkish existence has a single purpose: learn Mandarin. To this...
Long before before Jenna Bush flashed a fake ID or Amy Carter staged a sit-in, another rebellious First Daughter was grabbing the nation's attention by lounging atop the White House roof smoking cigarettes, placing bets with a bookie and toting a pet garter snake named Emily Spinach in her pocketbook. "I can be President of the United States or I can attend to Alice," Theodore Roosevelt once said when asked to discipline his headstrong eldest child. "I cannot possibly do both...