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Identity Theft: Tips to Protect Yourself

By Steven Rodriguez

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Identity theft is a scary reality that the entire country faces, and places like Los Angeles where people use credit and debit cards, the Internet and other electronic modes of communication quite often, it’s a serious issue. This isn’t a crime that wealth can protect you from, as the wealthy and those with good credit are particularly great targets for this crime. Major institutions have recently been heavily affected by hackers stealing the information either employees or students. UCLA Medical Center recently had a major breach both in 1995 and recently, where hospital aides and nurses looked at the records of such individuals as Tom Cruise and Mariah Carey. There are quite a few laws protecting people’s medical records, and for hospital workers to breach that law not only violates the trust of the patients, but the laws of both the United states and the state of California...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on April 14, 2008 (boomark / email).

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