[coloradan]

What penalties are associated with insecure storage of personal information? None. Should a gun registry be proposed, what measures will be taken to ensure they are not stolen? None are proposed.

[lelio]

I should of bolded some of the highlights. In a nutshell: a government contractor that "provides managed health care" to the military and contains servicemen's records had their computer stolen. Found out about it on slashdot.org
Don't know if this is just an opportunistic burglar or a targetted theft.

[hunter112]

I've seen Social Security numbers used under signatures on mortgages, which are then recorded in the county auditor's office, and become a public record. The address of the signers is always on the mortgage papers, too, unless it is their rental property, and would make it super simple for nasty types to get hold of this information. There's just way too much disclosure of people's information.

I believe that the solution is to stop tying the SSN to a person's credit record, some type of biometric data should be needed to even get a copy of a credit report, and to apply for credit. That's the only way to start to stem the tide of identity theft.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

TriWest encouraged their enrollees in the 16 states to e-mail computerthefttriwest.com or visit www.triwest. com.

"Yes, I'm calling because you asked me to call after your computers were stolen?" "Does TriWest have any information to help us victims?"

"No, we just wanted your SSN again so we can re-enter the info into our new billing computers."