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Press release, July 1, 2005: “Three House members today released a report on the need for strong federal laws to protect consumers from identity theft. The report, Identity Theft and Terrorism, prepared by the House Homeland Security Committee, highlights the security gaps currently existing in consumer database companies and large financial institutions.” Congressional Report on …
Press release from the Identity Theft Assistance Center (ITAC): Financial Services Companies Partner With Federal Trade Commission to Provide Identity Theft Data to Law Enforcement: Identity Theft Assistance Center Achieves Key Objective. Related website: Consumer Sentinel: “…an innovative, international law enforcement fraud-fighting program.”
Deloitte & Touche published their annual Global Security Study, 2005 (44 pages, PDF) which surveys the state of IT security in the finanical services industry. Related references: Personal Finance: How you can (and can’t) avoid identity theft More States Giving Consumers Power to Freeze Credit Files; Security Freeze Gives Consumers Powerful Protection Against ID Theft
Identity Theft: Some Outreach Efforts to Promote Awareness of New Consumer Rights Are Under Way, GAO-05-710, June 30, 2005. Highlights. “This report provides information on (1) outreach efforts to inform consumers, businesses and law enforcement entities about sec. 609(e) [of the FACT Act]; (2) the views of relevant groups on the provision’s expected impact; and …
Press release: “…the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2005, legislation…would help consumers better protect the privacy of their personal information in the face of recurrent data security breaches across the country…” Note that the press release includes: key features and a summary of the Specter-Leahy legislation, Senator Leahy’s statements on the introduction of …
The cover story of the July 4, 2005 issue of Newsweek is on ID theft. Following are links to several articles from the issue, as well as a link to a relevant article from the New York Times Sunday Week in Review: Grand Theft Identity – Be careful, we’ve been told, or you may become …
Press release from NJPIRG: “Today the New Jersey Legislature passed the potent, comprehensive “Identity Theft Prevention Act” (6 pages, PDF) with overwhelming, bipartisan majorities in each house. The law limits the use and display of social security numbers, requires business to thoroughly destroy discarded documents, requires businesses to notify consumers if an unauthorized person accesses …
In what appears to be a parallel data mining program to that of the Dept. of Education, about which I posted on November 30, 2004 (Federal Gov’t Wants To Mine College and University Student Data), and again on April 6, 2005 (Gov’t Proceeds With Plans to Mine Personal Data on Students), new reports today on …
From CNN Money, ID data breaches: as rampant as it seems documents the circumstances of the most recently reported incident of hacking, called skimming, that involved the illegal acquisition and storage of credit card data, the exact impact of which still has been not fully disclosed apparently due to the ongoing investigation. Related references: Personal …
FTC press release: “BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its failure to take appropriate security measures to protect the sensitive information of thousands of its customers was an unfair practice that violated federal law. According to the FTC, this information was used by an unauthorized person or persons …
From the Washington Post (reg. req’d), Private Eyes Fear Limits On Information Access
On Thursday, June 16, 2005, the Senate Commerce Committee held a Full Committee hearing to examine federal legislative solutions to data breach and identity theft. Note that Opening Remarks by five Senators are available in HTML, and the testimony from five FTC Commissioners and the Vermont Attorney General are available in PDF [Link]
