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- Consumer Watchdog blasts Google over privacy
- Consumer Watchdog blasts Google over privacyWow. No real surprise there[i]it certainly doesn?t seem that scary to me[/i]Of course not, you've proclaimed that you "Love everything Google does" and think the world of them (but would you fall on your sword, too?)[i]subscribe to the idea that Google collects information to make...
- Tags: Government, E-mail, Google Inc., privacy, Consumer Watchdog
- Discussion threads 2009-07-11
- Luster 1.0.3 (Mac)
- Credit File accuracy has never been more important. Users will learn how to legally and ethically correct mistakes on a report that are damaging their score. Follow proven methods for dealing with credit bureaus, creditors, and debt collectors. By taking advantage of Apple's modern technologies, Luster sports a modern, easy-to-use...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Bureau, Kashkoi Software, Luster 1.0.3, Productivity, Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2009-06-12
- Countrywide warning: Ex-employee (may have) sold customer, mortgage data
- Countrywide warning: Ex-employee may have sold customer, mortgage datanow whatI got the same letter. Took advantage of their monitoring offer but that doesn't make me feel any safer. What security precautions have you taken since receiving this letter?Are their any class action law suits related to this?Time to lobby congress...
- Tags: Web site development, Backups, Financial services, Countrywide, mortgage data, Ex-employee, bureau, credit file, fraud alert
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- First Data Could Allow User Generated Financial Credit Reports
- First Data Could Allow User Generated Financial Credit ReportsConfidentiality?Aren't CC transactions confidential between the buyer & seller and card issuer? I like the idea of consumers controlling their own credit reports, but I don't like the idea of First Data saving and compiling records of transactions after they've cleared.RE: First...
- Tags: Financial accounting, financial, First Data Corp., Financial Credit Reports, Allow User
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- LendingTree insiders leak customer data
- LendingTree, an online loan referral service owned by IAC, has informed select customers that their confidential data has been leaked to "a handful of lenders" by company insiders. An email to customers that may have been impacted by the breach refers folks to an FAQ that's basically...
- Tags: LendingTree, Sales Channel, Social Security, E-mail, Financial Services, Identity Theft, Sales, Government, Online Communications, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo
- Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for YahooStupid MSNow I can see where the EU will get it's next payday windfall. What next MS, buying what of the credit bureaus, TransUnion looking good. MS and Google, the world's data brokers . . . :(Microsoft should be shut downI'm...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Reckoning day for ChoicePoint?
- You may remember when Choicepoint, the data aggregator and vendor of personally identifiable information fell prey to a very simple ploy. Some Nigerian data thieves became customers and proceeded to download thousands of records. ChoicePoint is finally settling a class action law suit that arose from that incident...
- Tags: Bureau, Price Tag, ChoicePoint Inc., Culprit, Lesson, Social Security, Identity Theft, Financial Services, Government, Security, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- The further conflicts of Deborah Platt Majoras
- Seems that the conflicts of interest that FTC chair Deborah Platt Majoras carries about in her briefcase go deeper than I realized. You may recall that two privacy groups called for her recusal from considering the Google-DoubleClick merger based on the fact that her husband is a partner at the...
- Tags: Partnership, FTC, Business Structures, Mortgages, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Finance, Capital Structures, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?
- Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?You tell me and we'll both know."The question is, what will be that next evolutionary step that resets things so that we have the final word on such sensitive information."You tell me and we'll both know.It's the golden rule...Those...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, henhouse, Chartered, FTC, fox, telemarketing, ZIP code
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?
- I rarely get e-mail from the USA Today's Byron Acohido who from time to time interviews me for my opinions on tech. But today, Acohido drew my attention to a story that he has co-authored with Jon Swartz under the headline FTC under fire as credit bureaus sell consumers'...
- Tags: ZIP Code, Bureau, Database Company, FTC, E-mail, Government, Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- CreditCheckMate 5.01 (Windows)
- CreditCheckMate has been newly rewritten to completely provide a solution for credit repair by including credit reports, credit score and error correction. Its fun and easy using point-and-click navigation provided by the latest Office 2007 style menus and animated tool bars. This product gets free credit reports from all three...
- Tags: Click, Tool, Malsoft, CreditCheckMate, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites
- Software downloads 2007-10-26
- Canada to criminalize identity theft
- Canada to criminalize identity theftPatty Dunn and HPIt has never sat well with me that Patty Dunn was not prosecuted for the identity theft involving Cnet reporters. This news from Canada makes me think that loop holes involving her wrong doing exist in US law. To review. It is absolutely...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Telecom & Utilities, Financial accounting, Patty Dunn, identity theft, Social Security, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- Open source tells content owners adapt or die
- Open source tells content owners adapt or dieAnswer your questionDo they deserve to live? Sure. Everyone deserves a chance. Of course the traditional media is still strong, but it is becoming irrelevant a little more every year. It's partly the fault of the 24 hour news networks. How much news...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Now IT, music industry, Internet, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- Schneier: Will data reuse foster creation of a police state?
- The current era of "extreme data collection" puts crytography expert Bruce Schneier in mind of how the government abused US Census data collection during World War II. Writing in Wired, Schneier recalls that Census rules specifically banned the re-use of Census data, precisely so people would provide data without fear...
- Tags: Privacy, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- ID theft allegations haunt founder of ID theft fraud protection service
- ID theft allegations haunt founder of ID theft fraud protection serviceID Theft allegations hauntThis is indeed a sad story. It is very unfortunate that consumers would entrust their information to a third party, only to have to question themselves whether or not they have placed their trust in the right...
- Tags: fraud protection, identity theft
- Discussion threads 2007-06-06
- Niklas Zennström at VON '07: Innovation needs an open 'Net
- Im here at the Video on the Net conference in San Jose, where Niklas Zennström, on one of his first journeys to U.S. soil since the Kazaa settlement, joined Jeff Pulver and Vinod Khosla this morning in a session dubbed "The Internet Industry in Perspective." Zennström primarily discussed the...
- Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, telephone, video, Vinod Khosla, Skype Technologies S.A., Jeff Pulver, advertisement, wireless
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Study: Identity theft keeps climbing
- Study: Identity theft keeps climbingIt would help if our lawmakers would do something meaningful...There is no reason in the world that I should not be able to lock down my credit records whenever I feel like it. A lock and unlock should be as simple as a phone call...
- Tags: credit bureau, identity theft, Gartner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-06
- Credit Doctor Software: Repair Bad Credit 1.0.3 (Windows)
- Bad Credit. Award-winning Credit Repair Software Kit: Fix Bad Credit Reports, Boost FICO Score, Generate Letters, Order Free Credit Reports, Remove Errors, Negotiate with Creditors and get the best Loan, Mortgage, Refinance or Credit Card Rate possible. The Credit Doctor Software program is co-written by attorneys, to use the credit...
- Tags: Credit Doctor Software, Credit Doctor Software Program, Microsoft Windows, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Finance
- Software downloads 2006-11-28
- Good old identity theft as practiced in Chicago
- Good old identity theft as practiced in ChicagoCredit Card SecurityOne way to ensure employees have a difficult time getting credit card info is to NEVER take an imprint. Electronic credit card verification using a swipe of the card makes it very hard for an employee to just make a copy....
- Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, credit card number, credit card, card, identity theft
- Discussion threads 2006-11-13
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