I recently received yet another notice of the unauthorized access of my social security number. Since I live in California which requires disclosure of this information I have received notices from my bank, credit card companies, the government and the latest from a university I attended. As these notices remind me, there is no such thing as privacy these days and I must do whatever is in my meager power to protect my information. So I thought I'd share some of the steps I've learned of to protect oneself from identity theft and steps to take if one unfortunately becomes a victim.