Archive for August, 2007

ID Theft: What the Federal Government Isn’t Telling Victims

0 Comments Published August 30th, 2007 in Business, Consumer, Privacy

Here’s an interesting article on identity theft and social security earnings that was passed to me by a colleague. According to the article, the IRS, the Social Security Administration (SSA), and the Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS - formerly the INS) all collect information about double and multiple uses of the same social security numbers [...]

Web 2.0, Wikipedia, and the Quantity-Over-Quality Problem: Update

0 Comments Published August 15th, 2007 in Internet, News

Here’s an update to my post on The Cult of the Amateur, Andrew Keen, and “the Wikipedia Problem.”
Virgil Griffith, a CalTech graduate student, has built a search tool that traces the addresses of those who are editing Wikipedia.
The not surprising answers: Diebold — to suppress criticism of their electronic voting machines and to play down [...]