TECHNOLOGYS ETHICAL LEGAL PRIVACY ISSUES
INFORMATION PRIVACY
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To imitate you in chat rooms and on message boards.
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To access your bank accounts, credit cards, and other financial resources.
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To send you emails advertising stuff you’d never want.
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To send viruses out from your email account.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Data breaches that expose your passwords and sensitive data. Data breaches are the leading causes of identity theft. In 2022, 1, 291 data breaches have occurred to date, representing a 16% increase from 2020 [*]. Data breaches take place when hackers break into services that you use and steal your stored information.
Detailed explanation-2: -Identity theft may be used to facilitate or fund other crimes including Illegal immigration, terrorism, phishing and espionage. There are cases of identity cloning to attack payment systems, including online credit card processing and medical insurance.
Detailed explanation-3: -Physical Theft: examples of this would be dumpster diving, mail theft, skimming, change of address, reshipping, government records, identity consolidation. Technology-Based: examples of this are phishing, pharming, DNS Cache Poisoning, wardriving, spyware, malware and viruses.
Detailed explanation-4: -Highlights: There are a number of ways identity thieves may obtain your personal information. Fraudsters may dig through mail or trash in search of credit card or bank statements. Unsecured web sites or public Wi-Fi may allow identity thieves to access your information electronically.