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10 Million Americans were victims of identity theft in 2009.Could YOU be one of them and not even know it? Of course, written information about people has been collected and recorded for eons. This "data" was stored in repositories and consisted, depending on the period in human history, of clay tablets, tree bark, papyrus, sheepskins, and later mass-produced paper. We know from the historical record that this information was valuable to rulers and government as data to levy taxes, draft people into the armies, keep track of financial and land transactions and keep tables on the number, religion and other demongraphics of individuals. No doubt data stealing and forging has taken place as long as humans have inhabited this planet.
by Steffen Schmidt & Michael McCoy Identity Theft Is My Business
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