Presidential Proclamation: It's Consumer Protection Week
According to presidential proclamation, this week is Consumer Protection Week! From the White House:
During National Consumer Protection Week, citizens are urged to learn more about the risks of fraud and identity theft and take precautions to protect themselves from these crimes.
We have lots of info about fraud and ID theft and want you to learn all about it.
HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen
How To: Avoid ID Theft
The FTC has lots of info, too.
Deter. Detect. Defend. Avoid ID Theft
Report Fraud To Law Enforcement Agencies With Consumer Sentinel
Get your paper shredder prepped and ready!—MEGHANN MARCO
National Consumer Protection Week, 2007 [White House]
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Wow, I feel safer already!
During National Consumer Protection Week, citizens are urged to learn more about the risks of fraud and identity theft and take precautions to protect themselves from these crimes.
Er, this should be an all-year thing. In fact if the government was half serious about minimizing identity theft, they'd mandate free access to our own credit report ALL THE TIME, not just a ceremonial inspection once a year.
Timmus: they'd also implement harsh penalties for abuse of credit report info by scam artists and inaccuracies by companies, but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting.
Shouldn't this be the week when we are protected from misleading advertising, decieving sales material and packaging, price-fixing and lock-in?
Irony at its finest. Another wonderful example of "we're not going to do anything about this problem, so we'll have an 'awareness week' about it."
So...how about we hold our own 'awareness week' -- a freedom protection week during which citizens are urged to learn more about:
+ the many frauds perpetrated on them by their elected officials and
+ the selling out of their reputation and economic strength to special interests and foreign goverments through abusive (to US citizens) trade policies and immigration non-enforcement and
+ how to take proactive steps to put a stop to these crimes.
I second that motion Keter.
Avoiding fraud, is that anything like not being taken in by faulty intelligence?