Who really, has access to your private information?

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Nadler Investigates New Frontiers of Electronic Privacy Law

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How much of your personal information do you share when filing out forms, documents, and surveys that are often needed to conduct daily life in the twenty first century?  Do you openly share important personal information such as your social insurance number or blood type, or maybe your yearly income?  Most of us these days like to keep our personal tidbits pretty close to home, especially with the rise in identity theft, telemarketing rings, and online scams in the last several years.

Most of us are rather weary about even sharing our address, or birthday, or even phone number these days.  Although most of this info can be found somewhere within a phone book, online directory or social media site, still this is information in most cases, we choose to share. 

Even in the online world of tweeters twittering about everything from their bra sizes to what they may have found up their nose that morning, the fact of the matter is that these people are freely offering up these thoughts they share.  It is also, a far cry different than having your personal files and documents that have been collected by facilities entrusted to protect that information, basically ‘sharing’ it without your authorization.

Although in generality, most people could care less about who passes across their file in the government office or medical clinic, or where their private information is stored, this is not the point!  In today’s world, all ‘private’ information should be secured under lock and key, or maybe the use of  the password would be more appropriate to this situation.