{"id":466,"date":"2003-01-03T16:51:14","date_gmt":"2003-01-03T16:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/01\/03\/identity_theft.html"},"modified":"2003-01-03T16:51:14","modified_gmt":"2003-01-03T16:51:14","slug":"identity_theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/01\/03\/identity_theft.html","title":{"rendered":"identity theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the holidays, <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.tbo.com\/ap\/breaking\/MGA46M9K7AD.html\">&#8220;thieves nabbed personal information of 500,000 members of military and families.&#8221;<\/a>  Scarily enough, this data was nabbed because all medical records of the military members have been systematized and therefore are aggegatable.  I wonder who will have to experience identity theft before the practice of collecting data is questioned.  Often data is collected for a very different purpose than it is used.  What happens when someone else believes that they have a right to this data?  Or when data is sold (liquidization of a business) or when it is outright stolen?  I really do hope someone tries to steal John Poindexter&#8217;s identity&#8230; i think that would be a hoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the holidays, &#8220;thieves nabbed personal information of 500,000 members of military and families.&#8221; Scarily enough, this data was nabbed because all medical records of the military members have been systematized and therefore are aggegatable. I wonder who will have to experience identity theft before the practice of collecting data is questioned. Often data is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}