Funny how in 1970 when you walked into your local bank, and an actual human being waited on you, or you bought something somewhere, we never ever heard the term 'identity theft' nor gave it a thought.
But today that is all you hear about. Maybe part of that is a scare tactic to get you to buy 'protection' I dunno.
In the days of the Model A Ford, the only 'protection' you needed was to pay Lucky Luciano extortion $$ so he wouldn't burn your business down or beat you up or put a .45 slug in your back