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LifeCare Fully Compliant with New California Privacy Law

California recently passed a new law that is intended to take Social Security numbers out of public view and away from the easy reach of criminals. The law, which LifeCare is already in compliance with, obligates businesses serving California residents to revise their customer identification practices to include an alternative to using Social Security numbers as a means of customer identification. LifeCare, which provides services to many clients in California, notified these clients of the new law and immediately helped them convert from Social Security numbers to other unique identification numbers.

To identify California clients—and other customers who request that their Social Security numbers be kept confidential—LifeCare assigns each client an employer code and a unique employee identification other than a Social Security number. LifeCare accepts this alternative ID as its Internet registration, and login is performed over a protected connection. As an added measure of precaution, LifeCare validates and then destroys inbound Internet registration requests once users create personal usernames and passwords. LifeCare never publicly transmits or displays customer identification numbers.

More than 750,000 people in the United States are victims of identity theft each year and the California law is intended to help combat this type of fraud. Similar legislation is pending in many other states.