Identity Theft: Not Dead Yet
By Larry Downes on October 27, 2009 at 7:22 am
Julia Angwin’s column in The Wall Street Journal argues that identity theft is nothing but a “fear campaign.”
Not exactly.
I also have some strong words about the overuse and abuse of the term “identity theft” in The Laws of Disruption, and have written elsewhere in this blog on the subject. But I don’t think the problem is, as Angwin writes, merely a linguistic construct “designed to get us to buy expensive services that we don’t need.”
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