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Friday, June 15, 2007 12:21 PM

FTC Chair Majoras Discusses Identity Theft

USA Today's Kimberly Palmer has the scoop: What should people do to protect themselves? The first thing to know is that you need to be a smart consumer about protecting your personal information both online and offline. Online, you never give account
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:35 PM

A Tale Of Two Spyware Bills

Yesterday the House of Representatives approved an antispyware bill , called the "SPY ACT" for short, that would mandate the easy removal of intrusive programs from users' machines and require companies that collect information or install software to
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:54 AM

FTC "Proof Positive" Conference, Day 2

Work has been crazy lately, so I didn't get a chance to recap the second day of the "Proof Positive" conference. It wasn't as packed as the first, but here are some highlights: There was an excellent discussion about the differing attitudes of nations
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Monday, April 23, 2007 10:32 PM

FTC "Proof Positive" Conference, Day 1

Today I had the honor of attending the FTC's Proof Positive identity authentication/identity theft conference. If you are into these issues at all, this conference was like a live-action reenactment of "Challenge of the Superfriends"--everyone from Gartner
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 4:17 PM

FDIC Issues Guidance On Identity Theft

Originally posted at Private Intelligence . Feel free to comment here or there. Along with the FTC , the FDIC is the agency taking the lead on dealing with identity theft, approaching it as a matter of financial protection, especially since the agency
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:59 PM

TJ Maxx Data Breach Officially The Largest Ever

The Boston Globe reports that the TJX hack exposed 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers to possible identity theft and fraud: "It's the biggest card heist ever," said Avivah Litan of technology consulting firm Gartner Inc. " It's done considerable
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 4:35 PM

Identity Theft News Roundup: Cyveillance, Protection Tips, And Credit vs. Debit

Several interesting ID-theft-related docs made their way to my desk in recent days, so I'll just summarize them here: Cyveillance just put out a new identity theft and fraud report analyzing the state of the proverbial nation. Among their findings: In
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:46 PM

Ask The Doctor: What To Do If You're A Victim Of Identity Theft

Although identity theft and fraud are rapidly becoming topics of mainstream awareness, there're still a lot of gaps in basic knowledge that people don't have for how to handle a worst-case scenario--if they actually become victims. This is due to a lot
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 4:19 PM

Welcome To "Dr. Identity!"

Greetings and salutations! If you've read this far, you probably have a few burning questions which need answering, chief among them being: Who Or What Is "Dr. Identity?" That's simple--this is a blog about identity theft. How to identify it, how to learn
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