Get Noticed: Effective Financial Privacy Notices: Comments to the Federal Trade Commission
December 4, 2001
Interagency Public Workshop
"Get Noticed: Effective Financial Privacy Notices"
Federal Trade Commission
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December 4, 2001
Interagency Public Workshop
"Get Noticed: Effective Financial Privacy Notices"
Federal Trade Commission
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released details of its settlement agreement with Equifax concerning its 2017 data breach exposing the sensitive personal information of more than 147 million Americans. Read More
Diana has been a victim of check forgery fraud (someone used a computer to create a copy of her checks). They were able to withdraw $6,300 from her checking account to buy a car and apparently had a copy of her signature (she says they were able to make it look like her own hand). Read More
A credit freeze is the greatest protection you have against identity theft, specifically new account fraud. In 2003, California became the first state in the US to pass a law giving its residents the right to freeze their credit. Read More
The Sacramento Police Department called Frida to tell her that someone made a fake driver's license using her name. A large drugstore chain had tossed old job applicants into the trash without shredding them. Someone found and used them to made fake IDs. Read More
Mike's mail was sent to New Jersey instead of his California address when someone filled out a U.S. Postal Service change of address card in his name. He lost $4,500 on one credit card and $6,000 on another as a result of this. Read More
Today, the three nationwide credit bureaus (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion) will begin to provide free Read More