More than 100, 000 have five or more numbers, and according to consumer risk-management firm ID Analytics, only 15-20% of those cases are related to fraud.

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Intel announced this Processor ID in January as a tool for corporate asset management and e-commerce, but privacy advocates cried foul.

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This development is made possible by a new wave of technology: radio-frequency ID chips the size of pepper grains, broadband wireless and Web-based "dashboards" enabling monitoring and management.

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As electronic health records (EHR) have been getting adopted along with so-called patient portals (disclosure: my company is a patient portal and relationship management company), a consumer quickly finds themselves in a situation where they have several different user id and passwords to get at pieces of their health records.

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