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Article: HELP CLEAR VICTIMS OF IDENTITY THEFT KEEPERS OF CRIMINAL RECORDS MUST ESTABLISH PROCEDURES FOR PURGING BAD DATA AND FLAGGING ESTABLISHED IDENTITY THEFT CASES.(OPINION)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- May 25, 2004
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Lawbreakers have always tried to avoid criminal charges by giving an alias to the cops. But in today's computerized world, if that alias is your name, you may never live down the crime you didn't commit.
That's what law-abiding Malcolm Byrd has discovered. Byrd's life, described Sunday by Wisconsin State Journal reporter Lisa Schuetz, is an unending Orwellian nightmare. He has been arrested and jailed repeatedly for crimes committed by someone else. He has been fired from a job because databases continue to attribute criminal exploits to him. Byrd gets pulled over, pulled aside and rousted out of his home on a regular basis by well-meaning but misinformed ...