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MSNBC.com: Shame and Shoplifting at Wal-Mart

“In recent years, retailers have upgraded their technology and joined a shared database with law enforcement agencies to reduce shrinkage. But the rate of loss remains consistent. According to the National Retail Federation/University of Florida study, shrinkage as a percentage of sales ticked up to 1.61% last year, from 1.60% the year before. ‘Despite our best efforts we haven’t managed to reduce the rate of crime — and that’s because we are in the business of opening our doors to people,’ says Joseph LaRocca, vice-president of loss prevention at the National Retail Federation.”

Washington Post: Travelers Face Greater Use of Personal Data

“U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff praised the pact as an ‘essential screening tool for detecting potentially dangerous transatlantic travelers.’ If available at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Chertoff said, such information would have, ‘within a matter of moments, helped to identify many of the 19 hijackers by linking their methods of payment, phone numbers and seat assignments.’”

United Press International: U.S. to have less access to EU travel data

“The new agreement on Passenger Name Record, or PNR, data, effective as of Jan. 1, 2008, stipulates that the department will no longer have the right to access 34 PNR data per passenger in the airlines’ databases. Instead the airlines will be required to give the department 19 PNR data per passenger. “

CarInsruance.com: 4 Arrested In Auto-Insurance Scam

“Four Tampa residents were arrested Wednesday in connection with an auto-insurance scheme in which medical clinics reportedly paid patients to receive treatment they didn’t need, then billed insurance companies.”

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