US (BLOGGER) COMMENTS ON IDENTITY THEFT ISSUES Eng 102-7891 Blog: D10, HW3, WP3 Draft:

Identity Theft

"One way to also help prevent identity theft in general, would be first for all credit cards to be required to be protected by a 4-8 digit pin number. This would help cut down the number of credit cards stolen and used just simply using a signature. People are always on the go and always want a quicker way to purchase something, proven by Visa’s new Express Pay where you just hover your card over the credit card processing machine and it automatically authorizes you. No signature or pin number needed for entry. With new technology like this, it only makes it that much easier to continue on with identity theft. The government has the power to help regulate things like this if they really wanted to.

A school I was doing a work study program through ended up getting burglarized in the middle of the night. They smashed the windows and stole the computers in the room. The computers that were stolen had all the personal information of many students involved in this program, I was one of them. My Social Security number was stolen, and now I have to have an ongoing fraud alert on my credit report."