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Identity theft, social security numbers, and the Web

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 43 , Issue 2 (February 2000) table of contents

Pages: 17 - 21

Year of Publication: 2000

ISSN:0001-0782

Author

Hal Berghel

Univ. of Nevada at Las Vegas, Las Vegas

Publisher

ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 37, Downloads (12 Months): 520, Citation Count: 3

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CITED BY 3

	Edgar A. Whitley , Ian R. Hosein, Departmental influences on policy design, Communications of the ACM, v.51 n.5, May 2008
	Rebecca T. Mercuri, Scoping identity theft, Communications of the ACM, v.49 n.5, May 2006
	Aideen Keaney, Identity theft and privacy – consumer awareness in Ireland, International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, v.6 n.6, p.620-633, August 2009

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
K.4.1 Public Policy Issues
Subjects: Privacy

General Terms:
Human Factors

REVIEW

"James Edward Miller : Reviewer"

Berghel provides a framework for looking at privacy issues raised by the Internet and the current practice of using social security numbers as primary keys in databases and as authenticators. He gives a brief history of the use and misuse of s more...

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Hal Berghel: colleagues

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