In an apparent effort to bring child privacy protections up-to-date and in line with changes in technology, the Federal Trade Commission recently published a list of proposed amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule, known as COPPA. COPPA was originally created back in 2000 to give parents greater control over what personal information websites [...]
With two weeks of summer remaining, our attentions begin to turn to what is coming after the extended Labor Day weekend. There is the weather turning to cooler (and after our summer here, welcomed) temperatures. For sports fans it’s The World Series in baseball, while football fans (thankfully) look forward to the beginning of the [...]
With identity theft against children a growing issue online and in mainstream media outlets, IDGuardian is reposting some of our previous articles concerning minors and keeping their personal data safe. It may seem that assuring your child’s personally identifying information (PII) is easy to keep secure, but it can be pretty hard to do as [...]
Back in March, Intersections Inc. CEO Michael R. Stanfield presented a three-part series on the Digital Footprint of a College Graduate. His blogposts covered: A Graduate’s Social Media Profile A Graduate’s Credit Profile A Graduate’s Job Search Profile In this episode of the IDGuardian Podcast, Michael looks at the earlier years of a child’s life, [...]
The IDGuardian Podcast — Episode #19: The Risks of a Child's Digital Footprint[ 4:37 ]Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
As many as one in every 10 cases of identity theft may involve kids, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. And for years we’ve been warning about how a broken system makes it easy to steal the identities of children, and even sell these “clean identities”, legally, on the open market. A lawmaker in [...]
Authorities in Delaware recently announced the sentencing of two creative identity thieves who ran another successful, yet surprisingly simple identity theft operation for years without being detected. According to the local District Attorney, the two individuals used stolen mail to steal the identities of nearly 100 victims. What was most troubling was the fact that [...]
You can be sure that any story with the words “kids” and “roulette” in it is not going to end well. If your kids are pretty typical – they’re curious, adventurous, take some risks they shouldn’t (maybe because they don’t see them as risks), and they have a web cam, then you should know about [...]
As any cop will tell you, there’s no such thing as a routine traffic stop. You always have to be prepared for surprises, and a simple traffic stop in New Jersey might have thwarted a heartless scam focused on the identities of young cancer victims and their parents. When cops in New Jersey pulled over [...]
Identity theft continues to be one of the fastest growing crimes in the country and according to the Federal Trade Commission, 5 percent of all identity theft complaints in 2008 were victims under the age of one. Younger aged children are often targeted by identity thieves because the crime can go undetected for longer periods [...]
Security experts recently uncovered a new and very sinister twist on identity theft – businesses actively selling the Social Security numbers of children to buyers with less-than-stellar credit, who dump the stolen identities as soon as they’re no longer of use, then purchase more. Sounds crazy, but it does seem to be increasing in popularly, [...]
The IDGuardian Podcast — Episode #19: The Risks of a Child's Digital Footprint [ 4:37 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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