Privacy/Identity Theft

Parent Cafe
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<p>All this talk about students hacking admissions at MIT or finding open “back doors” into financial aid or cashier sites, coupled with what I read below and recent news about rampant identity theft, made me do a little investigating this morning. So far, I have removed my listing at Google.com, WhitePages.com, Switchboard.com, and the site I knew nothing about, AnyBirthday.com. </p>

<p>I can’t help but wonder what else is floating around out there about me and my family…</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/03/21/lets_focus_on_the_theft_not_the_identity/[/url]”>http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/03/21/lets_focus_on_the_theft_not_the_identity/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks Babboo…I knew about the Google site, but I was certainly surprised to see the AnyBirthday.com site! I’m assuming, unfortunately, that these are just the tip of the iceberg.</p>

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<p>Where do you go on Google to remove info? And thanks for the Birthday site - what possible use could people have for birthdays OTHER THAN identity theft? OK, maybe 1% would use it to surprise someone on his or her birthday! Anway, I removed several family members from that one…</p>

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<p>Google your phone number
Open Phonebook Results for xxx-xxx-xxxx
Open Phonebook Removal Form</p>

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<p>That birthday site has my birthday wrong (parts right, parts wrong). Maybe I should leave it alone so I won’t have my identity stolen ?!!?</p>

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<p>jym626:</p>

<p>I’d delete it…just my thoughts.</p>

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<p>Blaineko-
I was being facetious. I already deleted it.</p>

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<p>Have many of you out there been having problems with your CC account?? I had all sorts of trouble yesterday, and discovered that it was hijacked, as was my internet account (simultaneously). I believe I have them fixed, but it was a hassle, and I have to question whether the two hijacked accounts were related. Anyone else have this problem?? Seems ironic that it happened just as we were discussing identity theft…</p>