Scary tech that keeps us up at night in 2017

Face it: In our business, it's always Halloween somewhere, thanks to some data breach or another. But some tech trends scare us more than others. This year, these are the one keeping us up at night... starting with the destruction of identity privacy.

"I continue to be surprised that people haven't realized that identity privacy was destroyed by the Equifax fiasco," says contributing editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. "For years -- decades -- we've used Social Security numbers as a de facto national-identity number. I expect consumer fraud to explode any day now to levels that could wreck the economy."

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