Doing Business with Shady Characters
Are you doing business with a shady character? You may not know it but you probably are. Turns out many of the country’s top corporations are not good at handling personal information and are the main place where ID theft occurs. The Berkley Center for Law and Technology published a paper at the beginning of march outlining which companies have the highest rate of id theft. Number one was Bank of America. Rounding out the top five were were AT&T, Sprint, JP Morgan Chase, and Capital one. Turns out the monster banks may not be looking out for us after all (like we didn’t know that already). The best bank at keeping your info safe is ING Direct. This seems counter intuitive since they are an online bank, but they are very careful with your information. I love their log in process because it makes it very difficult for your account to be hacked. You can check out the rest of the list here. Looks like it may be time for me to write a letter to my cell phone provider too.
