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Consumer Action creates award-winning free multilingual educational guides on a wide range of personal finance topics and other subjects of interest to consumers. Many publications are available in Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese, as well as English. Each year, we distribute more than a million of our publications through a national network of 8,000 community organizations. Nonprofit and community-based agencies may order these free publications in bulk by clicking here for downloadable order forms or online ordering instructions.

2008

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Leave me alone (2008) Cover

Leave me alone (2008) Your privacy online—and offline. Leave Me Alone! Your Privacy Online - and Offline explains the concept of personal privacy and why it is important to be careful about who has access to your personal information. Topics covered include privacy in cyberspace, cutting down on unwanted junk mail and spam e-mail from marketers and 'top ten' ways to protect your privacy on and off the Internet.

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Sensitive Information - Privacy and Your Medical Records (2008) (Chinese) Cover

Sensitive Information - Privacy and Your Medical Records (2008) (Chinese). Your medical records are not as private as you might think. This booklet explains some steps you can take to guard the privacy and accuracy of your medical records. The misuse of medical records has led to loss of jobs, discrimination, identity theft and embarrassment.

Información Delicada: Su vida privada y el historial médico (2008) Cover

Información Delicada: Su vida privada y el historial médico (2008). Su historial médico no es tan privado como usted se imagina. Este folleto explica algunos pasos que usted puede tomar para proteger la privacidad y veracidad de su historial médico. El mal uso de historiales médicos ha conducido a la pérdida de trabajos, discriminación, robo de identidad y situaciones embarazosas.

Sensitive Information - Privacy and Your Medical Records (2008) (Korean) Cover

Sensitive Information - Privacy and Your Medical Records (2008) (Korean). 여러분의 의료기록은 생각하는 것만큼 비밀 보장이 되지 않습니다. 이 소책자는 여러분의 의료기록의 비밀 보장과 정확도를 높일 수 있는 방법에 대해 설명하고 있습니다. 잘못 사용되어지는 의료기록은 여러분을 당혹스럽게 만들 수 있으며 실업, 차별, 신분 도용 등의 원인을 제공할 수 있습니다.

Your medical records are not as private as you might think. This booklet explains some steps you can take to guard the privacy and accuracy of your medical records. The misuse of medical records has led to loss of jobs, discrimination, identity theft and embarrassment.

Sensitive Information - Privacy and Your Medical Records (2008) Cover

Sensitive Information - Privacy and Your Medical Records (2008). Your medical records are not as private as you might think. This booklet explains some steps you can take to guard the privacy and accuracy of your medical records. The misuse of medical records has led to loss of jobs, discrimination, identity theft and embarrassment.

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Freeze Your Credit File - Powerpoint Slides Cover

Freeze Your Credit File - Powerpoint Slides. The Freeze Your Credit File Powerpoint File is available for download in the "Download File" section.

Credit Report Security Freeze - Training Packet Cover

Credit Report Security Freeze - Training Packet. To provide participants with the knowledge to determine whether a security freeze is right for them and, if it is, how to place, lift and remove a security freeze. This PDF packet provides guidance for teachers and team leaders. The 11-page packet contains a detailed curriculum, classroom activities and take home worksheets.

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Security Freeze Training Manual Questions and Answers About Placing, Lifting & Removing a Freeze on Your Credit Report. This publication is part of a series on how you can protect yourself from identity (ID) theft by placing a security freeze on your credit files. A freeze also is a good idea for victims of ID theft.

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Freeze Your Credit File (Korean) Leave ID Thieves Out in the Cold. 신용 문서 "보안 동결"은 여러분이 신분도용의 피해를 당하지 않도록 하고 사기꾼들이 여러분의 개인 정보를 이용해 신용을 설정하는 것을 방지하는 데 도움을 주는 예방 도구입니다. 보안 동결은 여러분이 일시적 혹은 영구적으로 동결을 해제시키지 않는 한 여러분의 이름으로 새로운 크레딧이 설정되는 것을 방지합니다. 이 소책자는 여러분의 신용 문서를 "동결"시키는 방법을 설명하고 있습니다.

A credit file "security freeze" is a preventive tool to help you avoid identity theft and to block impostors from using your personal information to establish credit. This publication explains how to "freeze" your credit file, which prevents new credit from being established in your name until you temporarily or permanently lift the freeze.

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State Credit Freeze Chart. Consumer Action has prepared a chart listing guidelines for placing a "security freeze" on your credit file.

 
 

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