What a Maroon! Man in Crowded Train Station Loudly Speaks His Name, Social Security Number and Date of Birth into Payphone
There I was in the train station, reading the newspaper while waiting for my train, when I heard a man in a loud voice say Representative. I turned to see a man using a pay phone and empathized with his plight to get a live person on the other end of the line. But then the man stated and spelled his name for the representative, said he was going to give his social security number and then did so in its entirety, and finally blurted out his date of birth. Can anybody say identity theft? Yet none of it seemed to phase the man, who was just trying to obtain information about how certain stocks were doing in the market that day. In todays world, people are concerned about the misappropriation of information they provide electronically. So it was hard to believe that the man, who I later heard state that he was a lawyer, would voluntarily broadcast his personal information. The concern to protect the privacy of personal information from falling into th