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Outlook is bright for Identity Protection Industry, thanks to Obamacare

By: GregInFla (Diary)  |  April 8th, 2010 at 11:43 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

There are regulations that prevent Social Security numbers from being used for identification. It took a while for my employer to get its administrator, United Healthcare, to change from using the employee’s SSN to use a unique employee number. Well, those days are now gone. With Obamacare, health insurance companies will be reporting which people have insurance coverage. And now, since they are part of the tax system, health insurers will now be required to know the SSNs of all of its customers.

This significant expansion of the community of individuals and computer systems that have knowledge of people’s SSNs, will significantly increase the opportunity of the theft of such information. So, please beware.

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  • usadying

    Obama, Pelosi and Reid…and let’s not forget Soros. They all make me sick. Can we survive until the November elections?

  • http://www.veronicaestrada.com/ Veronica Estrada

    and include healthcare databases. (see #14)

    Remember they have no congressional oversight. This fusion center project sits directly under the President’s Executive Office.

    http://epic.org/privacy/surveillance/spotlight/0607/

    The federal Fusion Center Guidelines recommend that state fusion centers collect information on myriad issues: ?Agriculture, Food, Water and the Environment, Banking and Finance, Chemical Industry and Hazardous Materials, Criminal Justice, Retail, Real Estate, Education, Emergency Services (Non-Law Enforcement), Energy, Government, Health and Public Health Services, Hospitality and Lodging, Information & Telecommunications, Military Facilities and Defense Industrial Base, Postal and Shipping, Private Security, Public Works, Social Services, [and] Transportation?[22] State fusion centers can find this data by accessing a variety of systems, such as:

    1. ?Driver?s license,

    2. Motor vehicle registration,

    3. Location information (411, addresses, and phone numbers),

    4. Law enforcement databases,

    5. National Crime Information Center (NCIC),

    6. Nlets — The International Justice and Public Safety Information Sharing Network, and the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC),

    7. Criminal justice agencies,

    8. Public and private sources (Security Industry databases, Identity Theft databases, Gaming Industry databases),

    9. Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS)/Law Enforcement Online (LEO), U.S. Department of Homeland Security?s (DHS) Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN), including the United States Private-Public Partnership (USP3) ? formerly HSIN-CI. (Note: RISS, LEO, and DHS?s HSIN are currently collaborating on a network capability.),

    10. Organizational and association resources (InfraGard, The Infrastructure Security Partnership),

    11. Corrections,

    12. Sex offender registries,

    13. Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP),

    1***4. Health- and Public Health-Related Databases (Public Health Information Network, Health Alert Network).?[23] ***

    The actual 2007 fusion center guidelines are here:
    http://epic.org/privacy/fusion/report.pdf

    Thanks for posting this Greg.

  • GregInFla

    from the viewpoint of the Democratic Socialist leadership. All the more reason to re-read Atlas Shrugged, now that it has moved to the non-fiction aisle, and to plan on going galt, to avoid the People’s Republic of North America, should that happen.

  • http://www.veronicaestrada.com/ Veronica Estrada