Talk about soppy behaviour!!
Graham Cluley Oct 28, 2014
EXCERPT:
"TerraCom and YourTel America are part of a US government initiative called Lifeline, which subsidises telephone services for people with low incomes. To qualify for Lifeline, however, your telephone company will ask you to share your social security number, driver’s license, home address and other personal information.
That seems reasonable enough if you’re looking for a handout to get you a mobile telephone partly paid for by the government – after all, they want to prevent fraudulent claims. But you would certainly expect any organisation requesting such sensitive information to handle it securely, and ideally, destroyed as soon as it had passed verification."
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