Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● February 21, 2011
According to the newly released 2011 Javelin Strategy & Research Identity Fraud Survey Report, identity fraud has dropped. After two years of a consistent rise, identity fraud victims in the United States fell by 28 percent. The Javelin Study suggests this drop is due to “…changes in the U.S. economy, increased efforts by law enforcement, [...]
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Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● July 12, 2010
Kids are so darn cute. This cuteness can be completely out of control when a camera — be it video or still — comes into play. Whether it is in their infancy when you catch a magic moment, or a few years later when they ham it up for the photo, kids and cameras can [...]
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Posted by: Jerry Thompson in: ● June 9, 2010
Welcome to the IDGuardian Podcast. These audio and video columns can be listened and or viewed to in a variety of ways: Through the blog via the media player found in this blogpost Through a manual download by clicking on the “Download” link By subscribing through iTunes This episode features Jerry Thompson, co-founder of White [...]
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Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● April 14, 2010
With graduation season closing in, we have presented commentary on the graduate’s Social Media and Credit Footprints, long-lasting impressions that can make an impact on a person’s reputation particularly in the working world. If you are graduating, or know someone who is about to take that walk to accept academic accolades, extend to them this [...]
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Posted by: Michael Stanfield in: ● April 6, 2010
In a recent posting, we advised college graduates to take a serious look at their social profiles with a particular focus on existing accounts with social networking sites. Now we turn our focus to credit profiles, and the relevance they play in job searches, new purchases, and house rentals or buying. Credit is and will [...]
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Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● March 31, 2010
People blog. That may sound like an obvious statement, but it is worth repeating. From TheFutureBuzz blog, the statistics from the beginning of 2009 were as follows: 133,000,000 blogs were indexed by Technorati (a search engine specific to searching blogs) since 2002 346,000,000 people globally read blogs (from comScore March 2008) An average of 900,000 [...]
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Posted by: Michael Stanfield in: ● March 24, 2010
Millions of college graduates getting ready to embark upon the real world this year will find they are fighting for positions within an increasingly competitive job market. New suits, polished resumes, determination, optimism, and persistence can make all the difference in making it to the second interview… …but it’s that first interview that will prove [...]
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Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● March 22, 2010
Hollywood, as we all know, loves to tap the vein of “trendy” for everything it’s worth. This is nothing new if you look back on the history of cinema. Silent films gave way to Talkies. Black and white eventually yielded to color. Cinemascope gave moviegoers a wider perspective on things. Horror movies like The Tingler [...]
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TMI
Posted by: Matt Hines in: ● December 21, 2009
The easiest thing to do in scoping out the electronic privacy landscape for 2010 would be to decry the incredible alignment of factors guaranteeing that next year has little hope of serving some sort of turning point compared to what we’ve seen of late. But rather than merely highlighting the fact that according to PrivacyRightsClearinghouse’s [...]
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Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 21, 2009
For today’s digital criminal, whose bread and butter is information and identities, his workplace is wherever people gather online in larger numbers. Places like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. Another reason why so many thieves are gathering around the crowds is that the crowds don’t seem to be aware or worried that thieves might be lurking [...]
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