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Spanish:
Privacidad y su Informe de Crédito
En la era de la computación, nuestra información personal financiera es mucho menos segura y está disponible más fácilmente que en los días de los antiguos gabinetes de archivos. "Privacidad y su Informe de Crédito"… -
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Privacy and Your Credit Report
Our personal financial information is more easily available and far less secure in the computer age than it was in the days of old-fashioned filing cabinets. "Privacy and Your Credit Report" explains why the information… -
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Questions & Answers About Privacy & Your Credit Report
Privacy abuses are on the increase, including credit fraud and identity theft, a fast-growing crime in which an impostor applies for credit under a victim's name. "Questions and Answers about Privacy and Credit Reports" offers… -
Books:
Your Evil Twin: Beyond the Identity Theft Epidemic
Bob Sullivan, author and identity theft expert, probes this exploding crime. ID theft has hit ordinary citizens and celebrities alike, from Oprah Winfrey to Steven Spielberg, and costs the economy $50 billion a year. “Your… -
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No Place to Hide
In In No Place to Hide, award-winning Washington Post reporter Robert O’Harrow, Jr., pulls back the curtain on an unsettling trend: the emergence of a data-driven surveillance society intent on giving us the conveniences and… -
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Choosing a Wireless Service Provider - Powerpoint Slides
These PowerPoint slides cover many of the issues involved in shopping for and using cell phone service. -
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Choosing a Wireless Plan - Training Curriculum
This PDF packet provides guidance for teachers and team leaders about consumers' cell phone choices—service providers, calling plans, and phones to name a few. The packet contains a detailed curriculum, and classroom activities designed to… -
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Choosing a Wireless Service Provider - Backgrounder Guide
This question-and-answer format booklet is designed to help you understand the issues involved in shopping for and using cell phone service. Topics covered include wireless service plans and coverage, wireless phones, keeping your phone number… -
Books:
Spychips
Spychips, the eye-opening work about the downsides of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), is available in paperback. The book has already shaken the industry and prompted legislative initiatives worldwide. RFID is a controversial technology… -
Helpdesk:
Social Security Number safety
This is exactly what a few consumers were wondering when they called Consumer Action’s Hotline for advice. According to the Social Security Administration, there are specific laws that require a person to provide his/her SSN… -
Modules:
Elder Fraud
This training module covers many guises of fraud (with special attention to scams that target senior), signs of fraud and tips for avoiding scams. -
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ID Theft and Account Fraud
This training module covers steps to prevent ID theft, or if you are a victim, to clear up the problems created by ID theft and to lessen its impact on your life. -
Vietnamese:
Protect Your Phone Records (Vietnamese)
Hồ sơ điện thoại là một nguồn chi tiết cá nhân quan trọng nếu có người muốn lấy dữ kiện hồ sơ của quý vị cho những mục tiêu trái phép hay tai hại mà… -
Korean:
Protect Your Phone Records (Korean)
전화 기록은 중요한 개인 신상 정보를 담고 있으며 누군가가 악용 혹은 범죄의 목적으로 여러분의 허락없이 전화기록을 입수하려고 할 수 있습니다. 이 소책자는 누가 어떤 목적으로 여러분의 전화 기록을 입수하려고 하는지, 어떤 방법으로 그들이 여러분의 개인… -
Spanish:
Proteja su historial telefónico
Su historial telefónico es una importante fuente de información privada que alguien podría tratar de obtener sin su permiso con motivo de hacer daño o alguna actividad ilegal. Esta publicación puede ayudarle a entender quién… -
Chinese:
Protect Your Phone Records (Chinese)
有人可能未經過你的同意就試圖使用你的電話記錄以作為非法或陷害他人的用途. 因為它是個人資料的重要來源。這本手冊有助於你瞭解誰會想得到你的電話記錄，他們如 何試圖得到你的個人資料，以及你要怎樣才能減低成為受害者的可能性。 -
Modules:
Protecting Your Phone Records
Phone records are an important source of private information that someone might try to access without your consent for illegal or harmful purposes. This project includes materials that can help you understand who would want… -
English:
Protect Your Phone Records - Powerpoint Slides
The Protect Your Phone Records PowerPoint slides explain who would want to access your phone records, why they might want to do it, how these people try to access your… -
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Protect Your Phone Records - Lesson Plan
This lesson plan, which explains why phone records contain private information that someone might try to access without consent for illegal or harmful purposes, is designed to help you lead trainings and seminars. The 13-page… -
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Protect Your Phone Records - Leader’s Guide
Pretexting is a method of obtaining someone else’s personal information, including phone records, under false pretenses. This Leader’s Guide, written in question-and-answer format, will help give trainers background on the techniques pretexters use, the damage… -
English:
Protect Your Phone Records
Phone records are an important source of private information that someone might try to access without your consent for illegal or harmful purposes. This publication can help you understand who would want to access your… -
Press:
Groups recommend ‘Do Not Track List’
WASHINGTON—A group of nine privacy organizations – the Center for Democracy and Technology, Consumer Action, Consumer Federation of America, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Privacy Activism, Public Information Research, Privacy Journal, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, and World Privacy… -
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Safeguarding private medical data
Almost 2,500 patients taking part in a federal medical trial recently had their private health data compromised when a researcher’s laptop computer was stolen. The National Institutes of Health, which was responsible for safeguarding the… -
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Leave me alone (2008)
Leave Me Alone! Your Privacy Online - and Offline explains the concept of personal privacy and why it is important to be careful about who has access to your personal information. Topics covered include privacy… -
Outreach:
Privacy training in San Diego
A train-the-trainer even on how to freeze your credit file was held in San Diego for local community-based organizations.
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