Meet Shiva Sharma. Husband, father, identity thief, inmate of the Mohawk Correctional Facility in Rome, New York. Shiva has no idea how much money he’s stolen from other people, but by the time of his third arrest for identity theft, he’d been nailed in connection with over $150,000 in credit card fraud transaction.
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Stolen Veteran Affairs Laptop Recovered
By 6.30.06
After much hand and flag-wringing, a laptop containing millions of veteran’s personal data has been recovered. A preliminary analysis by police reveals that the sensitive information was not accessed during the theft.
Mass Trolling of Banks Records Unavoidable
By 6.24.06
Vice President Dick Cheney fired a stern rebuke on Friday to journalists after the disclosure of a secret program that combed a massive array of international banking transactions searching for terrorist ties, reports NYT.
US Trolled Bank Records
By 6.23.06
According to an article published yesterday in the NYT, the government secretly reviewed bank transaction data following 9/11 in order to trace ties to terrorist organizations. In the pursuit of quick results, however, some concerns for jurisprudence may have been cast aside as ballast. Reports Times:
The News: Evil Had a Birthday
By 6.7.06
• Inspired by The Antichrist’s birthday, Google admits being to being evil after all. [CT]
1,000,000-plus Students’ Personal Data Lost in Texas
By 6.2.06
Poof. The records of over a million customers at Texas A&M’s largest student loan provider have been lost. The records contained personal information about the borrowers.
Lawsuit Filed for 26.5 Mil Vets in Data Privacy Snafu
By 6.2.06
A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the 26.5 million vets whose personal records were lost by Veterans Affairs due to employee negligence, reports the AP.
Quiznos Toasts Your Arteries
By 4.4.06
Last week we let you know about Quiznos and how difficult it was to pry out their nutritional info from their claws dripping with fat.
UPDATE: Quiznos Nutrition Data Gleaned
By 3.24.06
As we noted earlier today, info about Quiznos nutritional values are hard to come by. Two blogs, Fast Food News and the U.S. Food Policy Blog have spilled considerable pixels on Quiznos lack of dietary info, which they could not find inside the sandwich shops or after asking via email and phone.
