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And what exactly do you propose to do if you are asked for ID? Yeah, they can indeed ask to see ID...
I'll say I don't have an ID. If they insist, then I'll have to leave and buy what I was going to buy at a different store.
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If you are really concerned about ID theft, then you put a freeze on the four major bureaus as well as the other entities such as Lexis or SageStream.
I have freezes in place at the 4 major bureaus, ChexSystems, and NCTUE. I'm working on getting all my data redacted from databases using this workbook:
https://inteltechniques.com/data/workbook.pdf
That's the base level of ID theft prevention. The next step is to stop populating numerous databases with my info. Getting data removed from data brokers online is good but that doesn't do anything to stop a malicious hacker from acquiring/using breach data from a merchant to commit ID theft or fraud.
For example:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/11/...4-year-breach/
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“For approximately 327 million of these guests, the information includes some combination of name, mailing address, phone number, email address, passport number, Starwood Preferred Guest account information, date of birth, gender, arrival and departure information, reservation date and communication preferences,” Marriott said in a statement released early Friday morning.
Marriott added that customer payment card data was protected by encryption technology, but that the company couldn’t rule out the possibility the attackers had also made off with the encryption keys needed to decrypt the data.
I'd prefer it if my records in these databases didn't have ALL of my real name, address, government ID number, etc.
Hotels demand lots of data from customers to protect themselves from fraud, but they don't give a flying **** about protecting that customer data after they get it.
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Marriott said the breach involved unauthorized access to a database containing guest information tied to reservations made at Starwood properties on or before Sept. 10, 2018, and that its ongoing investigation suggests the perpetrators had been inside the company’s networks since 2014.
The attackers had been inside their networks for FOUR YEARS lol.
This is arguably a more serious security threat than the Equifax breach because it would allow the attackers to track the movement of people who stayed at any of these hotels on a regular basis.
These breaches will only get larger and more frequent. And the more frequent they become, the less the media will report them because it's less and less of a sensational story the more often it happens.