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Employers need your Social Security number to pay you--but that doesn't mean they have to print it on your company badge or make it your log-in to access work schedules (one of the complaints in the Union Pacific case). With the rise in identity theft, companies, including UP, are starting to change their ways. Consider asking your personnel and IT departments to give you a different employee number. Citing stats on ID theft might help your case...
Financial institutions are the only group other than employers required by law to collect your SSN. But they too use it far more than necessary--to let you access accounts over the phone or online, for instance. Some banks use just the last four digits. "It's not totally safe, but it's safer," says Robert Ellis Smith, publisher of Privacy Journal. He suggests calling the bank and requesting a different password altogether...
...craze started in June 2005 after Google gave the public access to its programming interface for Google Maps. Mashups take the map grids and overlay them with information. Click on a virtual pushpin and a pop-up appears, giving info on a specific location. Whatever the topic?hotels, eats, music or travel?there is likely an existing mashup to guide you. If not, you can always mash your own. Here are some of the best sites...
...only significant departure from the U.S.'s small-country bias has been with Mexico, first in the creation of NAFTA and then when Washington bailed the country out after its financial crash in 1994. Paying attention to Brazil would involve offering an attractive trade agreement that would grant freer access to the U.S. market for Brazilian steel, shoes, orange juice, ethanol and other products that currently face import barriers. The costs for the U.S. economy would be relatively minimal. For Brazil, such a deal would stimulate exports, drive investment and lift the economy...
...Administration has also had some success in cutting off North Korea's access to the international banking system. For the past year, the Treasury Department has put intense pressure on international banks doing business with North Korea. Last year it helped shut down dozens of accounts at the Macao-based Banco Delta Asia, which was suspected of counterfeiting and laundering money for Pyongyang. Some diplomats in Beijing, in fact, suspect that the financial pressure the U.S. has been applying was the main reason for Pyongyang's defiant missile launch...