Tuesday, December 20, 2005
How much is an identity worth?
We found out today that DHL lost and then found an ABN Ambro Mortgage data tape that contained the personal data of about 2 million customers. Now there are all sorts of things that could be written about this, but the anonymous IT manager who is quoted at the bottom of this story beats us to the punch:
Last time I looked, Fedex and UPS state that on their shipping forms in spite of insurance, if something is truly valuable to you (eg non-replaceable) you shouldn’t use their services -- sure seems like people’s identities fall into this category.
Data tape $40. DHL shipping $20. Identity -- Priceless.
# posted by vinism @ 12:42 PM 
