A few posts back I mentioned our partner Identity Rehab…well they’ve changed their name and are now called ID Watchdog. Check out today’s story in USA Today by Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz which features a scary case of identity theft and just how complicated it can be when your data is compromised and your identity is stolen.
And while you are in the news reading mood, InformationWeek’s cover article this week is titled “Web Credibility: Hard Earned, Harder to Prove.“ It’s a must read for those interested in the issues driving Identity 2.0
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July 19, 2007 at 2:07 pm
[...] Terri is the WSJ’s personal finance columnist. If you read the paper yesterday you might have seen her piece adapted from the book on how to use your credit report to protect against identity theft. In it she discusses what you need to examine on your report, how you should go about correcting errors and the downsides of freezing your credit. There is also a list of services that will monitor reports from all three credit bureaus for you (similar to our partner Identity Watchdog but focused solely on credit) [...]