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Obviously the workaround is to stay away from Fisherman's Wharf. Zipping past Fisherman's Wharf, Chris Paget's scanner downloaded to his laptop the unique serial numbers of two pedestrians' electronic U.S. passport cards embedded with radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags. Within an hour, he'd "skimmed" four more of the new, microchipped PASS cards from a distance of 20 feet. "There's a reason you don't wear your Social Security number across your T-shirt," Albrecht says, "and beam

A laptop computer that may have contained the names, birthdates and Social Security numbers of 9,300 employees of Parkland Memorial Hospital was stolen last week, hospital officials acknowledged Monday.

The thief who took a city of Madison laptop with Social Security numbers of 300 to 500 employees last Friday may not have spent much time with it, police say.

It’s becoming an alarming issue with privacy of life. It seems since birth we have been tagged and marked each of us with an identification. Without much knowledge these information is kept by the respective goverment agencies for tracking purposes. From the day you are born to your qualifications all can be accessed through a click of a button. Now the Internet, as we know it is a place for public voice, opinion, online behaviour and a lot more. We have been hiding in this WWW for so long but little did we know that a lot of this information is being tracked, tagged and stored in databases. To what extent are we bring track is a mystery perhaps the alias that you so well hid yourself with is now being tagged to your real life identity, IC number, Social Security code, Credit Cards etc.

Google in snub privacy fury

So whatever you do where ever you are, it’s always wise to practise some restraint in the things we do. We do not want your names to google up and show that your are a member of a website/chatroom you do not want people to know about.