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"Identity theft is still called theft"

Identities are supposed to be unique, its part of the whole idea of identity. If someone else is using your identity, you are being deprived that. So in that case, yes, it is analogous to someone actually taking something physical to you. You cannot fully use your identity once someone else starts using it.



You cannot fully use your identity once someone else starts using it.

Of course you can.


Operative word: 'fully'. Down-voted for replying without reading.


Oh, I most certainly read it. Your identity is still fully at your own disposal, even if someone has abused some parts of it.


That's spoken like somebody who has never had his credit ruined on account of another's actions.




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