the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, earlier this week residents pointed out that the Ridgewood public Library was collecting emails using an unsecure gmail account.
It appears as though the Library has just (today, 6/19) removed all references to the rgwdteens@gmail account from their website, and also removed the hyperlink to an on line questionnaire for volunteer positions in which personal identifying information was being solicited.
However, there is no statement posted as to the status of any personal identifying information that may have been previously collected via the hyperlink and/or messages from applicants stored within gmail.
While some readers argued that this information is already publicly available , “Date of birth, place of birth, email address, phone number, home address, previous addresses, hobbies & interests, name of school, grade in school. This is what was being collected. So you can sit there with a straight face and tell me that all of this information is available on line for any teen/youth who resides in Ridgewood?”
Yes apparently that information is readily available and that the problem .
This is just one example of many this year from the Ridgewood Police department ,” on June 18th an East Ridgewood Avenue resident responded to Ridgewood Police headquarters to report a theft of impersonation. The victim reported discovering fraudulent purchases were made on his American Express card by an unknown person. The victim reported he notified the American Express fraud department and started a fraud case number.”
Always better safe than sorry .
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