Thursday, January 12th, 2012
In an opinion column at the National Times in Australia, Kathryn Koromilas makes the case that online and offline individual privacy still exists: The New York Time’s Nick Bilton announced recently that “privacy is on its deathbed”. This prediction was prompted by the “creepy” ease with which he hunted down the ...
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011
USA Today reports that travelers are at risk of identity theft: Identity theft can be a rude awakening for many business travelers. Last year, identity theft made up 19% of the 1.3 million complaints stored in the Consumer Sentinel Network, a secure online database available to law enforcement agencies. Experts ...
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
MedPage Today reports on the growing problem of medical identity theft, which affected 250,000 people by 2009, according to (pdf) the Federal Trade Commission. For more information: The FTC has released “Medical Identity Theft FAQs for Health Care Providers and Health Plans,” which has advice for how to protect patients from identity ...
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Serving our nation in areas like Iraq and Afghanistan can be one of the most challenging situations that any person could face. And, when soldiers come back from their tour of duty, the American soil and comfort of home can be a respite from dealing with circumstances that most ...
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice are holding a forum to discuss child identity theft on July 12. Thought leaders from government, business, non-profit, legal service providers, as well as victim advocates will explore the topic of child identity theft and how to tackle this ...
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
The Washington Post reports that the federal government is considering using credit-rating firm Equifax to verify the identity of U.S. workers. There have been numerous proposals for different identification-verification plans. Often, these are billed as identifying undocumented workers, but fail to mention that all job-seekers — including US citizens — ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) today released Best Practices for Identity Theft Services to address the questionable marketing practices used by some identity theft protection providers. The working group behind Best Practices includes consumer advocates (including ITAC) and several of the leading identity theft services providers. The advent ...
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
We all know that crimes against children top the worst of the worst list. Children come into this world fully innocent from anything that can do them hard, and only time and their environment can take this innocence away. Unfortunately, one route to stealing a child’s youth is to ...
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
The financial services industry continues to gain ground in fighting identity theft through a new agreement with Harland Clarke. The payments solutions provider to the industry will now offer ITAC Sentinel ® its nearly 11,000 bank and credit union clients and their tens of thousands of customers. ITAC Sentinel ...
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
You might think that with all of the technology that identity thieves have today that they would not even bother with a method called check washing. And that is exactly what they want you to believe. Check washing or bleaching is a practice where identity thieves erase the ball ...
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Welcome to the ongoing “Count Down to RSA” podcast series hosted by the Identity Theft Assistance Center. Today we are speaking with Janet F Chapman VP of Privacy and Manager, Corporate Compliance Group, Union Bank. Janet is on a panel called Top Privacy Risks for Organizations and Consumers at ...
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission has released “Medical Identity Theft FAQs for Health Care Providers and Health Plans,” which has advice for how to protect patients from identity theft. Some highlights: How would people know if they’re victims of medical identity theft? They could be billed for medical services they didn’t ...
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