{"id":310,"date":"2006-01-26T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T18:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=310"},"modified":"2006-01-26T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T18:35:11","slug":"were-from-the-government-and-were-here-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/310","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re from the government and we&#8217;re here to help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US government has just <a href='http:\/\/www.treas.gov\/press\/releases\/js3087.htm'>released a DVD about identity theft<\/a>.  This DVD, &#8220;Identity Theft: Outsmarting the Crooks&#8221;, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>features experts from the government and the private sector talking about the scope of the identity theft problem and how a few simple steps can significantly increase protection. Experts also cover topics such as: online safety; access to credit reports; taxpayer vulnerabilities to identity theft; and dealing with debt collectors if you are a victim of identity theft. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  For only $2, it might be worth checking out.  <\/p>\n<p>What is interesting to me is how the government is using new technologies to increase citizen access to information.  The government has <a href='http:\/\/www.rssgov.com\/'>RSS feeds<\/a> (here are some <a href='http:\/\/www.treasurydirect.gov\/rss\/index.htm'>from the Treasury Department<\/a>) and a host of <a href='http:\/\/freegovinfo.info\/node\/174'>podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government has just released a DVD about identity theft. This DVD, &#8220;Identity Theft: Outsmarting the Crooks&#8221;, features experts from the government and the private sector talking about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}