WPF Resource Page: AnnualCreditReport.com
Landing page for Call Don't Click: Why it's smarter to order your federally mandated free credit reports via telephone, not the Interent. A report on www.annualcreditreport.com by the World Privacy Forum.
Reports
WPF Report: A Year in the Life of an Online Job Scam - A Longitudinal Study
Job scams are as old as jobs themselves. In past years, con artists would put a bad job ad up, fool a job seeker into giving up their money, and then physically move on to a new city. Now bad job ads have moved onto the Internet, with devastating consequences. The very things that make the Internet so effective for job seekers -- speed, convenience, and a nationwide job search from a computer screen -- are the same things that make it effective for fraudulent activity. Job seekers and job sites have unfortunately been targeted with sophisticated triangulation scams that move rapidly and seamlessly through a selection of job sites from coast to coast in a matter of days.
WPF Report: Personal Health Records - Why Many PHRs Threaten Privacy
This report is a legal analysis of PHRs and what privacy issues are at stake in PHRs, especially PHRs that exist outside of HIPAA, the federal privacy rule.
WPF Report: The National Advertising Initiative - Failing at Consumer Protection and at Self-Regulation
This report is an in-depth analysis of the history and current operations of the National Advertising Initiative (NAI) self-regulatory agreement.
Report: Medical Identity Theft - The Information Crime that Can Kill You
This report discusses the issue of medical identity theft and outlines how it can cause great harm to its victims.
WPF Report: Call Don't Click II - Still be smart about ordering federally mandated free credit reports
The World Privacy Forum cautions consumers who qualify to order a federally mandated free annual credit report to ensure that they take common-sense computer safety steps before ordering their credit report online.
WPF Report: Call Don't Click I - Why It's Smarter to Order Federally Mandated Free Credit Reports via Telephone, not the Internet
Call Don't Click: Why it's smarter to order your federally mandated free credit reports via telephone, not the Interent. A report on www.annualcreditreport.com by the World Privacy Forum, originally published February, 2005, updated March 2005.
Timeline: The Evolution of an Online Job Scam
This timeline represents a longitudinal study of a single job scam as it evolved from July 16, 2003 to July 7, 2004.
Inaugural World Privacy Forum Report, 11 November 2003
Job Searching in the Networked Environment: Consumer Benchmarks -- The World Privacy Forum officially launches with this inaugural report, a study a year in its research on the job search sector. This study, The 2003 Job Search Privacy Study: Job Searching in the Networked Environment: Consumer Benchmarks , documents job applicant privacy across the job search industry from resume writers to job search sites to resume blasters and other parts of the job search infrastructure.
WPF Report: 2003 Job Search Privacy Study
Job Searching in the Networked Environment: Consumer Privacy Benchmarks
WPF Report: Resume Database Nightmare - Job Seeker Privacy at Risk
Pam Dixon, during the course of researching a separate study of resume databases, has discovered serious consumer privacy issues in resume databases that rise to the level of deserving immediate consumer notice. This report, below, highlights her findings.