- The Stop Thief
The police eventually caught up with Foleys employer, who served three months jail time in 2000. As for Foley, even though she estimates she spent hundreds of hours working to clear her records, she considers herself lucky in that the damage was limi ...
http://smartmoney.com/debt/advice/index.cfm?story=idtheft2004
| | - The Tips on Avoiding
Michele Norris talks with Evan Hendricks, editor and publisher of Privacy Times and author of Credit Scores and Credit Reports, about why people should be concerned about identity theft and what they can do to avoid it. ...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4502040
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- NPR Fighting Identity Theft
Beth Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, discusses the recent spate of security breaches at consumer data banks. Computer hackers accessed consumer data at ChoicePoint and LexisNexis. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse is a consumer a ...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4533534
| | - The Data Brokerage Industry
For a closer look at data brokers and what can be done to safeguard the industry from future fraud, NPRs Ed Gordon is joined by Robert OHarrow Junior, a staff writer at The Washington Post and author of No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emer ...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4533735
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- Experts Urge Consumers
Georgiabased ChoicePoint Inc. is sending out 145,000 letters to warn consumers their personal information has been stolen. But law enforcement officials say many more people need to be on guard for possible identity theft, after crooks got unauthoriz ...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4511424
| | - Senate Mulls Measures
He Senate Banking Committee considers possible regulations to battle the growing problem of identity theft. The most recent Federal Trade Commission survey found that 10 million Americans were the victims of some type of identity theft in one year. ...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4530813
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- Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
As part of the nations central bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston promotes sound growth and financial stability in New England and the nation. The Bank contributes to local communities, the region, and the nation through its highquality researc ...
http://www.bos.frb.org/consumer/identity/
| | - NPR Talk of the Nation
Consumers are reeling from recent thefts from a consumer data firm. And some experts caution its a problem on the rise. We look at how to protect your identity. ...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4507484
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- California Department of Justice
Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. was elected statewide to serve as the chief law officer of California. It is the duty of the Attorney General to see that the laws of the state are uniformly and adequately enforced California Constitution, Articl ...
http://caag.state.ca.us/idtheft/
| | - The Data Brokerage Industry
The data brokerage industry has come under intense scrutiny with the disclosure of two highprofile identity theft cases. ChoicePoint Inc. recently revealed that its system had been infiltrated in 2004, compromising the personal information of as many ...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4533732
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Theft Phishing
