She only got 65 months? I’m sure she won’t serve the whole 65 months either. The punishment does not seem to fit the crime in my opinion, seeing that she stole the identities of hundreds of victims causing untold misery.
Can one person here even make a rational attempt at explaining why our Social Security numbers– something which clearly says “NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES” on the card itself– are used by huge for-profit entities that use this number to uniquely identify us and track our purchases and usage of all types of credit?
Why is this government-created information– a short nine numerical digits– used to determine, with authority and essentially without meaningful recourse– whether we should be fired, if we are trustworthy, if someone will hire us, how much we “owe” the IRS and whether it can legally seize our assets, whether we are insurable and what rate we will pay, how much it costs for us to borrow money, and even whether we can find an apartment to rent.
Perhaps it is time for our Congress to act and pass legislation protecting the privacy of individuals not only from the government but from private entities that make billions every year from the collection, sale, interpretation and dissemination of our most sensitive personal and private information. I would welcome a second law prohibiting the use of a social security number for identification purposes of any kind, including by private entities.
How about the system gets changed.Instead of putting the burden on the individual we put it on the instutions that lend money. Say for any major purchases that I make I am willing to submit my thumb print. If credit is given without the print the loss will be on the bank not on the individual. Want to buy a house,car,boat submit your print to be checked and we can all sleep well with the exception of the savages who make a living off of our hard work. They will have to resort to working for a living. Food for thought.
This is really two issues:
1) The stupidity of the government people reviewing top secret clearances.
2) The credit bureau’s who BARELY make a good faith effort to clean up the records as witnessed on ’60 Minutes’ last Sunday.
And to the guy who says the Federal system doesn’t allow parole…thats BS, they do, and they use it like a sledgehammer on parolees.
The IRS is no help either. When we went to file our tax return last year, we found out that someone already did it for us and collected the refund. We were told that maybe we would hear from the IRS within 9 MONTHS. So far the only contact has been a secret PIN number to use so we can file 2012 taxes on time. No mention of the refund due to us. For all the new government employees hired by Obama, 9 months is ridiculous!
I agree with ExciteBiker. Only I wouldn’t use my thumbprint. However, I was always at a loss as to why credit cards never instituted PIN numbers like our Bank cards, and why our bank cards don’t require PIN use regardless of a debit of credit point of sale or maybe a security question the carrier would only know if purchasing online. If the government cannot guarantee protection of the Social Security number, then they should come up with something better
She only got 65 months? I’m sure she won’t serve the whole 65 months either. The punishment does not seem to fit the crime in my opinion, seeing that she stole the identities of hundreds of victims causing untold misery.
The good news is that there is no parole in the federal criminal justice system. She must serve the whoile 65.
Yes they do have parole.
This one should go into witless projection so they can find her when she gets out!
Can one person here even make a rational attempt at explaining why our Social Security numbers– something which clearly says “NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES” on the card itself– are used by huge for-profit entities that use this number to uniquely identify us and track our purchases and usage of all types of credit?
Why is this government-created information– a short nine numerical digits– used to determine, with authority and essentially without meaningful recourse– whether we should be fired, if we are trustworthy, if someone will hire us, how much we “owe” the IRS and whether it can legally seize our assets, whether we are insurable and what rate we will pay, how much it costs for us to borrow money, and even whether we can find an apartment to rent.
Perhaps it is time for our Congress to act and pass legislation protecting the privacy of individuals not only from the government but from private entities that make billions every year from the collection, sale, interpretation and dissemination of our most sensitive personal and private information. I would welcome a second law prohibiting the use of a social security number for identification purposes of any kind, including by private entities.
Very well put!!!
How about the system gets changed.Instead of putting the burden on the individual we put it on the instutions that lend money. Say for any major purchases that I make I am willing to submit my thumb print. If credit is given without the print the loss will be on the bank not on the individual. Want to buy a house,car,boat submit your print to be checked and we can all sleep well with the exception of the savages who make a living off of our hard work. They will have to resort to working for a living. Food for thought.
This is really two issues:
1) The stupidity of the government people reviewing top secret clearances.
2) The credit bureau’s who BARELY make a good faith effort to clean up the records as witnessed on ’60 Minutes’ last Sunday.
And to the guy who says the Federal system doesn’t allow parole…thats BS, they do, and they use it like a sledgehammer on parolees.
The IRS is no help either. When we went to file our tax return last year, we found out that someone already did it for us and collected the refund. We were told that maybe we would hear from the IRS within 9 MONTHS. So far the only contact has been a secret PIN number to use so we can file 2012 taxes on time. No mention of the refund due to us. For all the new government employees hired by Obama, 9 months is ridiculous!
I agree with ExciteBiker. Only I wouldn’t use my thumbprint. However, I was always at a loss as to why credit cards never instituted PIN numbers like our Bank cards, and why our bank cards don’t require PIN use regardless of a debit of credit point of sale or maybe a security question the carrier would only know if purchasing online. If the government cannot guarantee protection of the Social Security number, then they should come up with something better