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[…] $33 billion over  the  first  quarter  2008.    This  growth  helps  spur  the  staggering  economy  but  also  magnifies  the  serious  threats surrounding personally identifying information (PII) sub mitted during e-commerce transactions.   The  most  common  threats,  such  as  identity  theft  and  aggregated  data  f iles,  do  the  most  damage  when  companies are careless  (i.e., losing laptops  filled with  unencr ypted data)  or  callous (selling data  on the  open  market)  with  the  PII  they  collect.    […]

[…] L. Rev. 193 (1890). 11 Id. at 205. As Warren and Brandeis wrote: ” The principle which protects personal writings and all other personal productions, not against theft and physical appropriation, but against publication in any form, is in reality not the principle of private property, but that of an inviolate personality.” Id. For […]

[…] a response to represent the most important reason for online privacy. 49% of the participants selected reputation security (protecting social reputation), 38% selected economic security (preventing identity theft and protecting browsing habits from advertisers and third parties), and the remaining 12% selected physical security (to protect me physically, by hiding my face, location, and/or […]

Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft? Sasha Romanosky, Rahul Telang, Alessandro Acquisti Heinz School of Public Policy and Management Carnegie Mellon University {sromanos, rtelang, acquisti} @andrew.cmu.edu ABSTRACT In the United States, identity theft resulted in co rporate and consumer losses of $56 billion dollars in 2005, with up to 30 percent of […]

[…] victim’s  identity  online. 63    Cyberstalkers  can  both  impersonate  their  victims  and  can  manipulate  others ’  reactions  to  their  victims. 64    Wrongdoers  may  engage  in  identity  theft  for  finan cial  purposes.65    Additionally,  they  may  pretend  to  be  their  victim s,  and  send  inflammatory  messages  to  online  discussion  groups  o r  social  networks  […]

[…] ) and objective har m (the unanticipated or coerced us e of info r mation concerning a pers on against that pers on s uch as identity theft, the leaking of c las s ified infor mat ion that reveals an undercover agent, and the us e of a drunk -driving s us pect‘s […]

[…] feelings and emotions from the pain of unwanted publicity. The authors concluded that the “principle which protects personal writings and all other personal produc- tions, not against theft and physical appropriation, but against publication in any form, is in reality not the principle of private property, but that of an inviolate personality.” 43 They […]

[…] Brokers Collect and Package Your Data for Law Enforce- ment, 29 N.C.J INT’L L. & COM . REG. 595 (2004), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=582302; and Put- ting Identity Theft on Ice: Freezing Credit Reports to Prevent Lending to Impostors, Jan. 5, 2005, http:// ssrn.com/abstract=679581. Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Beth Givens […]

[…] iple , for example , is designed to prevent unauthorized access to information. Its goal is to protect data subjects from harms such as fraud and identity theft. The access and correction and the data quality principles are aimed at providing individuals wi th the opportunity to correct the record and to block the […]

[…] experience, Web surfers must understand that the threats involved can bring about rather minor injuries such as unwanted solicitations 50 or more serious injuries such as identity theft 51 or, in the worst case, murder. 52 Of all the potential threat s stemming from the collection of PII, the following two merit at tention: […]