Security and Privacy Take Center Stage in Protecting Personal Data

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12 September 2006 at 10:19 a.m. ET

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By Ellen Simon, Associated Press

Stealing Social Security numbers and other sensitive data isn’t always a cloak-and-dagger, ultra-sophisticated operation: It’s often a low-tech job made easier by carelessness and flimsy safeguards.

Plenty of inexpensive measures can protect data from the large-scale theft that big banks, data merchants and other companies have recently disclosed.

But “security and privacy, for a lot of large organizations, are an afterthought, not a priority,” said Evan Hendricks, who publishes the newsletter Privacy Times.

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