Category Archives: Own Your Identity

Does and  ID Scanner steal your identity?  These scanners read your drivers license and extract name, address, city, state, zip, date of birth, date of expiration, drivers license number and store the information.  Whenever data is stored, one has to wonder what is being done with it.  Where is this data going?  Its your data.  [...]

Here is a great example of one’s digital identity being controlled by a third party. This is an article from Wired.com – www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/facebook-dating/ How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day? Simple. You scrape data from Facebook. At least, that’s the [...]