Thursday, December 13, 2007
Identity
It is no surprise that DNA can detect alot of a person and how much the internet can turn peoples' lives into basically open books. Senator Ted Stevens a republican from Alaska had some of his staff do a trail run and steal his identity just to see the results. With his DNA being an experiment for his staff it was no surprise how much information they got from his DNA and how successful they were at getting the information.
"His staff, Mr. Stevens reported, had come back not just with digital breadcrumbs on the senator, but also with insights on his daughter's rental property and some of the comings and goings of his son, a student in California. "For $65 they were told they could get my Social Security number," he said." (Article- Personal Data for the Taking)
This shows how your identity from DNA can be used to get any information that a person wants with in limitations even if it only cost them a small amount of money. Showing that it is not that hard to for someone, if they wanted to, to steal someone's identity and if some future ideas of privacy come about dealing with using our DNA for everything to monitor what we do or just for authorization aspects of everyday life, though in some ways it is being done already with vchips and other high tech forms, it will just make it easier for someone to do what they want with our identities.
"His staff, Mr. Stevens reported, had come back not just with digital breadcrumbs on the senator, but also with insights on his daughter's rental property and some of the comings and goings of his son, a student in California. "For $65 they were told they could get my Social Security number," he said." (Article- Personal Data for the Taking)
This shows how your identity from DNA can be used to get any information that a person wants with in limitations even if it only cost them a small amount of money. Showing that it is not that hard to for someone, if they wanted to, to steal someone's identity and if some future ideas of privacy come about dealing with using our DNA for everything to monitor what we do or just for authorization aspects of everyday life, though in some ways it is being done already with vchips and other high tech forms, it will just make it easier for someone to do what they want with our identities.
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Does this mean we're soon to be subjected to another rant about the "series of tubes?"
I find it amazing that my Senator has only now discovered that *gasp!* identify theft exists.
Sheesh.
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I find it amazing that my Senator has only now discovered that *gasp!* identify theft exists.
Sheesh.
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