https:\/\/familytreenow.com<\/a>\u00a0 and opt out.<\/p>\nGet credit cards with low limits.\u00a0 You probably don\u2019t need a ten thousand dollar limit on your card.\u00a0 Thieves love high limits when they get your credit card.<\/p>\n
Never buy anything over your cell phone.\u00a0 Use a computer and be sure the site is secure.<\/p>\n
Identity Theft and Newborn Children<\/h4>\n
There was yet another very significant observation made by David Watts: when a child is born, a Social Security Number is now automatically issued to the baby at birth.\u00a0 Thieves know that the child is not going to use that number until they get their first job, maybe when they are fifteen years old.\u00a0 That gives the thief fifteen years to use it and never get caught.<\/p>\n
Watts recommends that parents contact the three credit reporting companies and put a freeze on the Social Security number. It can be removed when the child gets their first job.<\/p>\n
It seems we need to do a better job thinking through what technology has brought.\u00a0 We now need to be more vigilant about our privacy and personal information than previous generations.\u00a0 I would be interested in hearing about other protection ideas, as new technology develops, new services are born and more vulnerabilities arise.\u00a0 This is certainly an area our legislators need to address.\u00a0 In the meantime, buyer beware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Identity theft continues to be a serious problem, and it is one with which we should be very concerned.\u00a0 Recently, I invited David B. Watts, an experienced private investigator and author\u00a0https:\/\/www.accidentalpi.com, to speak to my firm\u2019s Client Care Program members Identity Theft is More Than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,12,3007],"tags":[1295,1296,219,1294,54,1299,249,66,1298,83,92,1297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15464,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions\/15464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}