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FCPC ALERT #2004-7
Originally Published on
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for members of the Fairfax County Privacy Council, and anyone else who might be
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ALERT ITEM
SUMMARY:
1. “Identity Theft: The Michelle Brown Story,” tonight
on Lifetime TV @
2. Medicare SSN alert
3. Civil liberties oversight board proposal in trouble
4. FCPC website updated with the “Privacy Pizza”
5. Public meeting re: implantable microchip dangers
6. Privacy Quote: "Smart-card advocates have no right to…”
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1.
“Identity Theft: The Michelle Brown Story,” tonight on Lifetime TV @
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Based on a true story, this movie highlights the real world danger to
individual security posed by identity thieves and others seeking to impersonate
you and your good name. See previews and synopsis at http://www.lifetimetv.com/movies/originals/index.html.
Movie starts at
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2.
Medicare SSN ALERT
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Wonder where malicious ID thieves start when they want to prey on you?
They start by finding your full name address, and either your date of birth or
Social Security Number (“SSN”).
Your SSN is the key to perpetrating identity theft. Carrying an insurance card
that uses the SSN as an ID number leaves consumers at risk for identity theft
if their purse or wallet is stolen. And insurers who use the SSN as an ID
number usually include it in correspondence, creating an easy target for mail
thieves.
Though many states including Arizona, California, Georgia, Texas, and Utah,
have laws that prevent private, commercial insurance companies from using your
SSN on insurance cards and on correspondence, the federal Medicare program
still uses the SSN
as an ID number. And if you use Medicare, you know that your ID
card advises you to carry the card with you.
TAKE ACTION!
Tell Your Congressional Reps and the Dept. of Health and Human Services to Stop
Using Your SSN as an ID Number for Medicare at www.FinancialPrivacyNow.org.
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3. Civil
liberties oversight board proposal in trouble
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At this very moment, leaders from the House and Senate are engaged in
heated negotiations over what could become the most dramatic restructuring ever
of our nation's intelligence agencies. One of the key sticking points is the
creation of a robust Privacy and Civil Liberties Board to ensure that
government actions do not infringe on our liberties.
The 9/11 Commission endorsed the creation of a strong board. Yet in its version
of the legislation to implement the commission's recommendations, the House
rejected the creation of a board, a position that the Bush White House has
endorsed. Fortunately, however, the bipartisan Senate version of the
legislation included a strong board.
TAKE ACTION!
Tell Congress at http://www.aclu.org/NationalSecurity/NationalSecurity.cfm?orgid=n&ID=16886&c=24&MX=1680&H=1
that we can be both safe and free and that the final intelligence reform bill
must include the creation of a powerful and independent Privacy and Civil
Liberties Oversight Board to act as a watchdog over our civil liberties.
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4. FCPC
website updated
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Check out www.FairfaxCountyPrivacyCouncil.org
and click on the “Privacy Pizza”
link to learn what life might soon be like in America under the surveillance
industrial complex. Share the FCPC web site with your friends and family
and recommend they join the free FCPC alert service by emailing FCPCChairman@cox.net with the key word
“subscribe” in the subject or message body of the email.
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5. Public
meeting re: implantable microchip dangers
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For those in the Tidewater Virginia area, Pam
Stewart of Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (“CASPIAN”)
will be giving a lecture on the implantable Microchip and its dangers on
Sunday, November 14, 2004 at noon at St. Benedicts Chapel, 521 McCosh Drive,
Chesapeake, Va. in the Forrest Hall room. For further information contact
Pam at 757-416-0802 and see http://www.nocards.com.
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6.
Privacy Quote: "Smart-card advocates have no right to…” ************************************
"Smart-card advocates have no right to access our private information
without going over the appropriate legal hurdles.
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