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...Bradbury to be concerned that soon every membrane will be permeable by some gadget recording, taping, filming or just watching you. Coloradans are no doubt pleased that the state plans to start using three-dimensional "face recognition" photos for driver's licenses in order to prevent identity-theft crimes. Yet states sometimes sell their databases to anyone who can afford to pay for them, and no one knows how your face print will be used then. The videocam in missing intern Chandra Levy's hallway would have been a godsend to investigators if it hadn't already taped over...
Americans go to great lengths for safety: We install elaborate security systems in our homes, anti-theft mechanisms on our cars and remind even our smallest children to "Stop, drop and roll" at the merest hint of fire...
Most identity theft still begins off-line, often in such low-tech ways as a criminal sifting through garbage to find an unwanted preapproved credit card. But once an ID theft is under way, the Internet can make the work considerably easier. A particular problem: fast-proliferating websites that sell fake...
...Theft of personal data from websites is also growing. Egghead.com sent a chilly wind through cyberspace late last year when it disclosed that hackers had broken into its system and may have accessed millions of credit-card numbers from its database. (It later found that no credit cards had been compromised.) It was a stark reminder that financial data are only as safe as every website you share them with...
There have been other recent high-profile hacks. Music retailer CD Universe lost up to 300,000 credit-card numbers; Bibliofind, a subsidiary of Amazon, had the names, addresses and credit-card numbers of 98,000 customers stolen. One thing that makes online credit-card theft more tolerable than some cyberscams: if consumers find false charges, banks and merchants should pay most of the bill...