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YOUR ADDRESS ISN’T PRIVATE ANY MORE

     Two newsletter subscribers told me about an Internet site, ZABASEARCH.com, open to the world, which lists all our names and addresses. I looked them up and found that our addresses and phone numbers are definitely out there – in more than one place – and people can find them using ZABASEARCH. ZABASEARCH says, however, that it isn’t the bad guy. ZABASEARCH does NOT have a database that lists you, me and everyone else. It is merely a search engine that searches all the databases of this type and reports back to customers. Try it yourself at:

http://www.zabasearch.com/

     I looked further and found the real facts at PRIVACYRIGHTS.org. Seems that, while you can get yourself out of some of these databases, you are permanently listed on others, and, if you don’t like it, tough. To learn more disagreeable but accurate facts, go to:

http://privacyrights.org/ar/infobrokers.htm

KEEPING YOUR PRIVATE BUSINESS PRIVATE

     The PRIVACY RIGHTS CLEARINGHOUSE is fighting for our right to privacy in a privacy-consuming world. They’ll tell you that “over 216 million data records of U.S. residents have been exposed due to security breaches since January 2005.” And much more. A suggestion: don’t hit this site just before bedtime. It won’t help you get a good night’s sleep.

http://privacyrights.org/

ALMOST TOO BAD TO BE TRUE

     You know how I’ve yammered on about Internet evildoers? And you know how truth can be weirder than fiction? And you remember those car bombs that went off in London and Glasgow in the summer of 2007, bombs put together by doctors, I kid you not? Turns out that credit card data stolen online helped fund the bombs. Read about it here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2007/07/05/AR2007070501945.html

     And that’s why I keep saying, Don’t believe unsolicited e-mails from official sounding organizations. And, use one low-limit credit card per family for all online purchases. That way, if some scammer does get your data, you will only be paying for one very small bomb.
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