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On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 18:50 -0600, Henry Brown wrote:<BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">The Department of Public Welfare began mailing letters Wednesday warning </FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">the recipients to take steps to protect themselves from identity theft, </FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#000000">agency spokeswoman Anne Bale said.</FONT></TT><BR>
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This strikes me as odd and I have a couple of questions for the group.<BR>
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1. If your data is lost and there is a clear "at fault" party as seems to be the case here (the data was unencrypted) they isn't the "at fault party supposed to provide ID theft protection? Is that a law or just something done to reduce damages should they ever be sued over release of personally identifiable information without informed consent?<BR>
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2. If it is welfare rolls, then these people can't afford to do this on their own, so again why isn't the state setting this up for them?<BR>
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Rodney Wise
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