Public Service: Be Wary Of Digital Photocopiers
May 14, 2010 Political
If you take your personal documents to work or use a business that provides copying services then you are at risk for identity theft. Additionally, businesses are at risk of inadvertently disclosing a great deal of personally identifying information.
A CBS report shows that used copiers are resold and that they contain hard drives with images of documents that have been copied or scanned. The report shows how copiers from police departments contained information on suspects who were involved in drug and sex crimes. The report also shows how thousands of documents from a health care company were retrieved and those documents included medical information including test results, diagnoses, and social security numbers.
All of the information could easily be used by those engaged in identity theft and the report indicates that some of the copiers were bought by entities outside our country.
Technology exists to erase images from hard drives after a copy or scan is made. If you own a business you should insist on this for your machines.
If you are copying personal stuff you should insist on copiers that have the technology (I have used them and they indicate that the image is being erased).
Just a public service announcement from the Big Dog.
Now, if I can just figure out how to take care of the Nigerian scammers…
Sources:
CBS
Maniac World
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: cbs, digital photocopiers, hard drive, identity theft, images
ACORN Dirt Keeps Piling Up
Nov 25, 2009 Political
Looks like the ACORN office in San Diego (that demonstrated fraud like this) is not the only one that has been breaking the law by dumping thousands of papers containing personal information. ACORN beat feet out of an office in Oklahoma last year so it could avoid paying the back rent it owed (no wonder they help people get loans they can’t even hope to pay back) and the group left behind a lot of paperwork and a computer. The paperwork included the group’s plan for putting the right politicians in office. The document posted at Big Government leaves no doubt that ACORN is a liberal organization dedicated to assisting the Democratic party. It is interesting the way they describe neighborhoods with Anglos in them (as if that is a bad thing).
Looks like ACORN is in violation of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which governs how personal information is handled by certain institutions (of which ACORN is one). The documents dumped include credit reports (like the one found here), social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, addresses, dates of birth and all kinds of information that would be very useful to someone interested in stealing an identity.
The fine for failing to safeguard this information is $100,000 per incident. Since there are tens of thousands of papers containing tens and thousands of breaches of personal information, ACORN should be bankrupt and out of business when they get done with the fines.
I am amazed at the number of people who continue to defend this organization. It is rotten to the core and just when you think you have seen it all a new item pops up to expose them even more.
This group is a bunch of community organizing thugs who break or skirt the law in order to advance a political agenda just like their former mentor, Barack Obama or B-HO, as it were.
Each day Breitbart releases another item that exposes the corruption of ACORN.
He has promised that if the Attorney General does not launch a serious investigation then a lot of stuff will be released before the 2010 election.
That’s one way to take down the Democrats. Take down their community organizing firm.
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