Identity Theft: The Internet Connection
Description:
Concern is growing about identity theft — where one person assumes the identity
of another by stealing personally identifiable information (PII), such as credit card or
Social Security numbers. High profile incidents disclosed in early 2005 involving
ChoicePoint, Bank of America, and LexisNexis, where the PII of more than a million
Americans may have been compromised, have refocused congressional attention on this
issue. Many associate the rise in identity theft cases with the Internet, but sur…
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Date:
March 16, 2005
Creator:
Smith, Marcia S.
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