Sunday, July 16, 2006

Fast Facts

*Amy Boyer and Rebecca Schaeffer, two unrelated and totally innocent young women, were brutally murdered as a direct result of their private information being published online.

*The vast majority of county clerks and recorders are not required to publish their residents' records over the internet. It is done only as a matter of convenience.

*Using a blank deed and stolen copy/pasted notary seal, actual home theft is a rapidly growing crime, costing homeowners thousands of dollars to recover their own property.

*Phoenix leads the nation in identity theft victims. Maricopa County (which includes Phoenix, Arizona) was the first to publish records over the internet.

*Foreign terrorists use 'public' records published online to create more than 80% of the training manuals used to target Americans.

*After a federal judge's family was murdered in her Chicago home, over 100 judges petitioned the county to take their information offline.

*Tarrant County (Ft Worth, TX) began publishing records online in 2003. Two years later, Dallas - Ft Worth ranked 4th in the nation for identity theft.

*In 2005, Americans began filing class action lawsuits against government agencies who published their records online. So far this year, multiple suits have begun with hundreds more in preliminary stages.

For more information on any of the above stories, go to www.FindMyID.com

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