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The National Council on Identity Policy Home Page NCIDPolicy.org The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP) was born of the struggles of one tenacious survivor of domestic violence and stalking. The NCIDP continues her work with the help of many. ~ The NCIDP in 2008: 13 years of saying "NO". We are an organization of, about, by, and for survivors of violence. We have developed expertise on the subject of the care and control of personal identity information to the end that it empowers us to survive our perpetrators. As it happens, everyone benefits from knowing and exercising such care and control. Sadly, few know how. We've been at this work since 1995, before much public awareness or concern about "identity theft". We guarantee that the subsequent epidemic of identity theft would not have happened and unfolded in the manner that it did if existing laws and privacy protections were enforced consistently and appropriately. We believe that it's high time for U.S. Attorneys nationwide to get a little focus and enforce the laws in these matters and manners that we discuss here, and have discussed for more than a decade. Federal prosecutors could have prevented the identity theft epidemic from ever happening simply by prosecuting these laws consistently, as we discuss. Another conundrum in this is that so few have exercised proper care and control of their identity information for so long that few remember that they have the rights to do so - yet some of us at the NCIDP remember that once upon a time we could not graduate from High School without passing a class that taught many of them. We wonder: How could so many be deprived of a practical education in this country? We hope that providing some information on this website helps inform and educate many far more efficiently than it has one consultation at a time. We will be adding interesting and in-depth content continuously. Please keep in mind that this website is largely the byproduct of our research and consultation work - we currently have no plans for developing this into a fancy, flashy website. The usual cautionary note: we are only disclosing facts of law and propriety here, not providing legal advice to you in your particular circumstances. An additional cautionary note for other survivors of violence: perps are everywhere, and you will discover more of them than you ever dreamt in all of your worst nightmares if you attempt to exercise your rights, the rights we discuss on this site, fully. One tidbit of information (a teaser): if anyone, from your banker or car dealer to your local, neighborhood public servant claims that the Patriot Act (P.L. 107-56) requires that you give to them your social security number [to obtain whatever product or service you are seeking], they are violating 18 U.S.C. § 1028 (Identity Fraud) and 18 U.S.C. § 242 (Deprivation of Civil Rights Under Color of Authority) - and that only begins the list of felony crimes that you have just become the victim of. More on this coming soon to this website.
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