Kuci: Privacy Piracy

Claire Miller is a successful professional with 18 years' experience in the publishing industry, living and working in Manhattan for the past 11 years. In September 2005, she began receiving visits and telephone calls from strangers-men who claimed to have communicated with her online through e-mails, chat rooms, and instant messaging (IMing). Through some of these men, she discovered that a cyber stalker had put up information on websites pretending to be her. She thinks he hacked into a high school friend's e-mails, gathering personal information about her. This stalker has impersonated her not only in direct correspondence with men online, but also by posting at least three profiles on personals websites, some of which listed her full name, home address, and home telephone number.She was featured in the New York Times in April 2006.