The Federal Trade Commission recently announced its intention to survey of identity theft victims who reported identity theft incidents FTC between January 1 and May 30, hopes the FTC to determine whether the victims were found effective remedies to resolve these issues. available legal remedies include placing fraud alerts on their credit files, blocking certain information on their credit reports and receive free copies of the reports. We look forward to reading the results of this study!
The President Identity Theft Working Group recommended this type of study last year. The Working Group also recommended limiting the use by federal agencies of social security numbers as identifiers, passing a national law breach notification and the launch of an awareness campaign to federal identity theft.
If you are concerned about identity theft, you should consider a protection service against identity theft.