Privacy: The Social Security Number and Identity Theft

In this digital age is has become so easy for and individual's privacy to be compromised by technology. Risks involving technology and identity theft is oftentimes ignored by the general population since it is something that most of us can not physically see - it is a process that is invisibly, yet its results and consequences are very real. The social security number is one thing that we should be concerned about when considering the risks of having these identification numbers in databases that can easily be hacked and used for identity theft. Many examples of such breaches upon personal information can be seen in this website that shows us just how many breaches have occurred between the years 2005-2007: http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/ChronDataBreaches.htm#CP

As we can see through this website, identity theft through hacking into databases or computers is a common occurrence since many of these sources contain sensitive data, such as our social security numbers.