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Identity theft is an amazing PR term, not-so-subtly shifting blame onto the individual whose identity was fraudulently used. * The PII wasn't stolen from me, i
by 3JPLW 7y ago
Identity theft is an amazing PR term, not-so-subtly shifting blame onto the individual whose identity was fraudulently used.
* The PII wasn't stolen from me, it was negligently exposed by services I contract with (and pay!) and others that I have no formal relationship with (like Equifax).
* It wasn't defrauding me, it was defrauding services I contract with (and others) who failed to verify my identity.
And yet somehow I'm obligated to do the cleanup myself.
- tryptophan 7y agoYup. The quickest way to stop these sorts of things from happening is to make the banks responsible for accepting/using stolen information(ie facilitating identify theft). For some odd reason, its the person's responsibility now that the bank used fraudulent information.