Privacy Rights Handbook

SAFEGUARD YOUR PRIVACY IN AN AGE WHEN BIG BROTHER PROBABLY IS WATCHING Your business has become big business. In our technologically advanced world, sensitive information about you--from your medical history to your net worth--can be collected without your knowledge and sold to the highest bidder that information may have been taken from records without your permission, or you may have unwittingly revealed it yourself in the course of a normal day. The good news is that you can fight back. Beth Givens, founder of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, gives you all the information you need to be aware of threats to your privacy and to be assertive about protecting it. Find out why your social security number is more revealing than you think, how 800 numbers and supermarket scanners can keep tabs on you, and what your employer can learn about you through your computer (and through the e-mail you thought you deleted.) Youll learn how to: put an end to junk mail and telemarketing calls keep your on-line activities hidden from prying eyes find out whats in your credit and medical reports (and correct damaging mistakes) reduce the chances that someone will steal your identity use the Freedom of Information Act to see what the government knows about you and much more Packed with up-to-date, useful addresses, telephone numbers, and web site addresses, THE PRIVACY RIGHTS HANDBOOK empowers you to choose when and how to let others on your business.