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	Alert: Straight Talk about Identity Theft Monitoring Services Hardly a day goes by without hearing about someone becoming a victim of identity theft or learning about another data breach. The exposure of Social Security numbers (SSNs) and other personal information can increase consumers’ risk of identity theft. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse’s Chronology of Data Breaches documents over 230 million records that have been compromised due to security breaches since January 2005. Faced with these alarming statistics, many consumers have turned to credit monitoring services for protection. <Read More> Other Recent Entries and Alerts

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Privacy Alert

Alert: The Privacy Implications of Cloud Computing

It is difficult to come up with a precise definition of cloud computing. In general terms, it’s the idea that your computer’s applications run somewhere in the "cloud," that is to say, on someone else’s server accessed via the Internet. Instead of running program applications or storing data on your own computer, these functions are performed at remote servers which are connected to your computer through the Internet.

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