AAA Hawaii's Annual Holiday Season Travel and Shopping Poll of 250 local residents reveals that 76% plan to primarily shop this holiday with credit or debit cards. However, almost four in ten of surveyed shoppers have little or no concern about identity fraud happening to them this holiday shopping season! Identity theft is rampant throughout the holiday season. Over the past 3 years stolen data being used in less than one week jumped from  33%  to  71% , meaning that they steal today and shop today.  Identity thieves count on our lackadaisical attitude toward monitoring our wealth. More >>

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Google History and YourPrivacy
By John Sileo
www.ThinkLikeaSpy.com


What started in 1997 as aresearch project and a mission as the way to organize the world'sinformation has turned into the world's largest search engine. Googlehas given anyone with an Internet connection access to more informationthan they realize. With such quick access to information, you need tobe careful what you put on the World Wide Web and realize what iscontained in your Google History. Remember, posts -- and searches-- are permanent. Here are a few privacy issues when it comes toGoogle:
Google's profit model is based oncollecting, indexing and sharing as much information as possible abouteveryone who uses its suite of tools. Because Google dominates thesearch engine market, websites, businesses and individuals are highlydependent on them. This dependency gives us a good excuse to overlookprivacy issues with the company (Gmail is so useful, I couldn't livewithout it, even if I'm losing some of my privacy). The solution is notto stop using Google, the Internet or web-based tools. It is to beconscious and discriminating of how you use the tools.

About the author: John Sileo became America'sleading IdentityTheft Speaker amp; Expert after he lost his business and morethan $300,000 to identity theft and data breach. His clients includethe Department of Defense, Pfizer and the FDIC. To further bulletproofyourself and your business, visit John's blog at Sileo.com. To book John at yournext event, visit www.ThinkLikeaSpy.com. Permissiongranted foruse onDrLaura.com

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