Kaiser Permanente is subjecting you & I to privacy & identity theft risks.

I am very concerned with how Kaiser Permanente is handling the sensitive data of their members and employees,  and exposing all of their members and employees to Identity Theft.

I am a member of Kaiser Permanente and today I tried to sign up with the online Kaiser Permanente system.  After I completed my name,  email and other required information I was told I would be presented with a series of Security Questions.

The first question provided a list of addresses and the name of the city where they were located.  I was to select the address where I had either lived or been associated with or select none.

Each question was to be answered within 75 seconds.

Well as computers are machines and things happen,  my computer locked up and I had to reboot.

I tried again to complete my registration process but system stated they would send via US Mail a temporary password.

I was various curious as to where and how Kaiser Permanente got the information that was contained in these Security Questions so as called the Kaiser Permanente web master department.

I asked their web master department if they performed background or credit checks on their prospective members based on the Security Questions,  I was told no.  I then asked how they obtained the questions that were asked,  I was told they out sourced this to RSA.com.  RSA.com obtained this information from Credit Reports and other Public Information.

After further research I discovered that RSA.com is owned by EMC Corporation and that EMC Corporation out sources jobs to other Countries and that Kaiser Permanente also outsources jobs to India.  EMC has data centers & jobs in China,  Czech Rebublic,  Estonia,  Hong Kong,  India,  Phillipines,  Romania,  Russia,  Serbia,  Slovakia,  Sri Lanka & Ukraine.

I do not know about you but I do not want ANY OF MY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO BE AVAILABLE TO ANY PERSON THAT IS NOT A US CITIZEN.  YES EVERY CULTURE HAS THEIR GOOD AND BAD,  HOWEVER IF MY IDENTY IS BREACHED I WANT THE POLICE TO BE ABLE TO PUT THE PERSON IN JAIL,  IF THE PERSON WHO STOLE MY IDENTY IS IN INDIA THE POLICE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HELP ME.


http://www.sacramentograpevine.com/blog/view/id_77/title_kaiser-permanente-data-breach/

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/popups/exporting.america/content.html.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/14/BU307139.DTL&type=tech

http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid182_gci911482,00.html

http://www.kaiserthrive.org/media-coverage/

Tags: Kaiser Permanente Identity Theft Risks