Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
A Republican state lawmaker is sponsoring a bill that would allow parents to open up and lock credit accounts for their children as soon as the children receive Social Security numbers.
Rep. Eric Hutchings of Kearns, Utah, said he got the idea for the bill after his youngest daughter was born ...
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
It sounds like a drama plot from a television show: a character, used to his high-frills lifestyle, gets wrapped up in the wrong crowd and eventually in over his head. Except this story wasn't written by a member of the writer's guild and it didn't air during prime time ...
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
Congress recently passed legislation that allowed the government to publish the last four digits of an individual's social on public documents. The timing couldn't have been worse, as just a few days earlier researchers at Carnegie Mellon announced that they found a formula that allowed them to correctly guess the ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
While searching through the web today I came upon this story posted by the Des Moines Register: click for article. It seems that a woman in Des Moines was the victim of identity theft and that the person responsible used her social security number to obtain credit cards to Von ...
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
"To Tell the Truth" may not be on the air any longer (although it has aired every decade for the past six decades), but the game's idea is still going strong. For those not familiar with "To Tell the Truth," it dealt with a panel of celebrities asking questions to ...
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