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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:34 AM

House Legislation Would Crack Down On SSN Thieves...EXCEPT NOT

Anne Broache from CNet has the story : At 56 pages (PDF) , the latest effort is far lengthier and more prescriptive but includes many of the same provisions. It was introduced Monday by Reps. Michael McNulty (D-N.Y.) and Sam Johnson (R-Texas), who lead
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Friday, July 06, 2007 9:40 AM

GAO: Data Breaches Rarely Lead To ID Theft

"Yep, breaches have no impact whatsoever. Trust me on this..." The Government Accountability Office released a report yesterday stating that it was difficult to link data breaches to confirmed cases of identity theft. The GAO also recommended that agencies
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 4:10 PM

David Bach on Protecting Yourself From Identity Theft

Financial author and columnist David "Finish Rich" Bach has followed up his November column on identity theft with some more useful discussion, particularly around the ease with which thieves can utilize a Social Security number, name, and address to
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:12 PM

Credit Bureaus Cause Identity Theft And Undermine Our Economy

Crossposted at Private Intelligence . Feel free to comment here or there . USA TODAY has a great (if unintentionally unflattering) look at the efforts by the bureaus' lobbyists to stop states from adopting credit freezes : When this trend began to gather
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:43 AM

Data Privacy And Guest Workers: It's Worse Than We Thought

As more information comes out about the new immigration proposal, it's becoming clear that the bill not only fails to comprehensively address the root problems of illegal immigration, but introduces a series of new risks to data security, privacy, and
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Monday, May 21, 2007 2:46 PM

Identity Theft And The New Immigration Bill

Rather than delve into the morally thorny issue as to whether or not it's right to grant amnesty to undocumented workers, I want to address a serious part of the immigration debate that often goes unmentioned--how the black-market demand for cheap labor
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Friday, May 11, 2007 11:48 AM

The Politics Of Credit Freezes

The Washington Post's Brian Krebs put out a great article on Wednesday detailing the long, hard struggle to pass credit freeze legislation across the country. Krebs details how hard the credit and finance industries fight bills in each state, preying
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Sunday, April 29, 2007 7:37 PM

This Month In Data Breaches

A new feature I'm incorporating: Each month we're going to sum up the big data breaches and exposures of customer information, as these are fast proving to be a cornerstone in the ever-growing identity theft and fraud empire. So who ended up with egg
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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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Friday, March 23, 2007 9:19 PM

FBI Sends Agents To Romania To Stop Identity Theft

Ars Technica has a fascinating look at the international efforts to stop hackers and information sellers: The Eastern European connection has become a large-enough problem that the FBI has begun working with the Romanian National Police on identity theft.
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