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Identity Theft – Don’t Make A Critical Mistake

With the good comes the bad. With the explosion of the digital services age has come an explosion in a crime known as identity theft. It is now the fastest growing crime with an identity being stolen once every two seconds. That’s 15 million a year and rising quickly.

Most people picture identity theft as something that occurs when someone rifles through your garbage can looking for credit card statements or what have you. This does happen and you should shred anything that contains your personal information. The shredders are less than $50 at your local office supply store or online, so don’t be lazy with this. Still, this is not where most identities are stolen and it is a huge mistake to think that just protecting your own stuff can make a major difference in your identity theft risk. Why is this? Let’s look at an example.

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Internet Copyright Laws And Why They Don’t Always Work

Laws and regulations are an integral part of modern society, and they have been with us for a very long time, many centuries to be exact, giving us a guide to follow and conventions to respect. Well, the Internet has also become an integral part of modern society, and it’s no wonder that many countries all around the world are trying to create Internet or Cyber laws that will govern everything we do online. One of the most important Internet laws is in fact the Internet Copyright Law, and here will be discussed how it works in some detail.

The US Internet Copyright Law

Everything created on the Internet after the date of April 1 1989 is protected under the American Internet Copyright Law. This can in many cases probably be difficult to understand, but the fact is that if you come from the USA, and you have created something and uploaded it on the World Wide Web is the last 20 years or so, this work of your is protected, and it cannot be stolen by anybody. However, this is true only in theory.

The Problems with the Internet Copyright …