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California ID Theft Case Now Has National Impact

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Updates today on news earlier this week, Data Mining Aggregator Reports Widespread ID Theft, disclose that the scope of the ID theft scam may involve half a million individuals around the country, not just the 35,000 in California as initially reported.
Related resources:

  • Defendant In Major ID-Theft Case Found Guilty
  • Choicepoint Fraud Highlights Need for Stronger ID Theft Safeguards; 11 States Consider Security Freeze Right for Consumers – Two Others Consider Requiring Companies to Notify Customers About Security Breaches
  • From Consumers Union, a website listing “state identity theft protection bills that give consumers the right to place a security freezes on their credit files.”
  • S. 115 – Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act: A bill to require Federal agencies, and persons engaged in interstate commerce, in possession of electronic data containing personal information, to disclose any unauthorized acquisition of such information. Sponsor: Sen Feinstein, Dianne [CA] (introduced 1/24/2005).
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