Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Identity Theft vs Marriage

I saw an ad the other day on TV about how some children are going to have their identities stolen and their credit ruined before they are even old enough to think about credit. There's another ad about a young man who is living in his wife's parent's basement because he didn't check his wife's credit score before marrying her.

It's horrible how many lives can be ruined by identify theft. Will it eventually lead to changes in culture? Will marriage become a huge financial risk (well more of one than it is today?) Will people end up living together instead of getting married because they to have a fall back back in the event of identity theft? Or will the laws change making it harder for companies to give out credit without really verifying a person's identity.

What will be our forms of identification in the future?

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