Data Protection as a Protection From Identity Theft
There are infinite reasons for a person to think about ways to protect against identity theft and fraud. When put into simple words, identity theft refers to one person using some other person’s identity as his own, without that person’s knowledge, especially for something that is unlawful. Stealing identity can be backed by various causes the most important of which is financial. The simplest and the most common form of financial identity stealing refers to using someone else’s credit card without the latter’s knowledge. When pick pockets manage to get access to another person’s wallet, the first thing they go for is the credit cards which they can use pretending to be the owner, especially when the cards do not have any photo identity. There can be other forms of identity theft also. People can pose as some other person to avail medication that they are not entitled to. This kind of medical identity theft is done for the sake of narcotic based prescription drugs. Criminal identity theft is very dangerous. It refers to a situation when the criminal in question poses to be another person when the police tries to arrest …