{"id":148,"date":"2008-12-08T10:55:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T17:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2008-12-08T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T17:55:19","slug":"identity-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/08\/identity-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted the following statement this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A paper trail is an identity thief&#8217;s best friend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was no where near a fortune cookie.  Really.  This statement appeared on the back side of an envelope from a financial institution, who was pushing sign ups for electronic statements.  The institution even suggested that we can all &#8220;rest easy knowing all [our] account information is locked away safely online.  Yes, paper statements are not secure, that&#8217;s why we shred them after we no longer need them.  And, paper statements may also be intercepted while in transit.  However, skimming paper statements is not scaleable.  That&#8217;s why identity thieves target online databases.  So, instead of obtaining account information on one person, these thieves can obtain account information from millions of people.  I&#8217;m not confident that any information can be locked away safely online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted the following statement this morning: A paper trail is an identity thief&#8217;s best friend. I was no where near a fortune cookie. Really. This statement appeared on the back side of an envelope from a financial institution, who was pushing sign ups for electronic statements. The institution even suggested that we can all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[114],"tags":[93],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}