Stop Calling it ‘Identity Theft’
Someone used my credit card number and went on a spending spree with it about six months ago, and I had to get my details changed and a new number issued. Since then I've been referring to it as having my identity stolen. Not too long ago I met a guy who worked for a credit union, and he ripped me a new one for it, saying "you didn't get your identity stolen, that's just credit card fraud!"While I see his point, that there's much, much more serious forms of it out there, I still think it's pretty much the same thing, and that just because I could get it more or less taken care of with an hour at the bank and didn't have to go through years and years of pain to get things undone doesn't make it any less identity theft.Which is kind of the opposite point of the linked rant, I know. He's saying we shouldn't let it be called that so corporations can pin the responsibility on you and wiggle out of any liability.