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More of your information than you think might be online.  If you are worried about a thief stealing your identity, it's not your wallet that needs guarding -- it's your state and local governments. That's the alarm Betty "BJ" Ostergren, the self-proclaimed Virginia Watchdog, has been sounding for the past four years from her rural Virginia home. Sitting at her computer, she shows us with just a click of the mouse she can find Social Security numbers, birthdates, bank loans and even digitized signatures that a clever thief could easily manipulate onto official-looking documents. Everything anyone would need to steal your identity is right online, put there by local and state government agencies. "And it is so easy,'' she said during a recent demonstration for CNN. (Watch how easy it is to steal your identity -- 7:58) "They have no clue, people," she said, pulling up a random divorce record that shows, among other things, a father's Social Security number and his former employer, the U.S. Air Force.

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