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Milena Head, associate
professor of business
Identity Theft: When Bad
Things Happen to your Good Name
Identity theft refers to any impersonation or misappropriation
of an individual's identity. It can take many forms, such as
misusing personal information to open new credit card accounts,
take out loans, fill out legal documents such as crime reports
or leases, obtain passports, etc.
Aided by the increase in digitization and online information,
identity theft is rapidly becoming a major worldwide problem
for businesses, governments, and citizens. This talk will explore
key issues of this phenomenon that is rapidly becoming “the
crime of the century”.
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Milena Head is an Associate Professor of Information
Systems and the Associate Dean, Academic, for the DeGroote
School of Business. She is also the Faculty Director
for the World
Congress on the Management of Electronic Business, and
a Director of the annual McMaster eCase Competition.
Professor Head’s passion is electronic business
and human-computer interaction. She seeks to answer
important questions such as: How do we build trust in
a virtual environment? How can the interface be designed
to help instill this trust? How do Canadians adapt to
and adopt new technologies? How does this differ in
cultures from around the world?
An accomplished researcher, she has published
over 35 papers in respected academic journals, books
and conferences.Professor Head has been an invited speaker
at numerous international events and she currently consults
on electronic commerce strategy and implementation issues,
Web-site engineering and usability.
Milena
Head's Home Page
Read Prof. Head's interview
with the Hamilton Spectator
This is
a free public lecture.
All are welcome!
Tuesday February 8, 2005
Hamilton Spectator
Auditorium
Doors open @ 6:30 pm
Lecture begins at 7:00 pm
To reserve your seat
e-mail sciencecity@mcmaster.ca
The Hamilton Spectator Auditorium is located
in the Hamilton Spectator at 44 Frid Street, south of
Main Street West, west of Dundurn St.
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