Blumenthal Shows a Different Facebook

Another social networking site is starting to take some heat from law enforcement in its ability to keep sexual predators off its site. The New York Times reports that Facebook, which has positioned itself as the safe social-networking alternative because it takes greater lengths than other social networks to keep adults and under-age users [...]

Why Preventing Identity Theft Involves Company Culture

Some folks over at InfoWorld are really championing the prevent identity theft cause these days.
Today Mario Apicella wrote a piece on his personal story with identity theft and the legislation the DOJ has drawn up to combat identity theft. And last Friday, Robert Grimes had commentary disputing some of the GAO’s report [...]

Thank-you Chris Hansen

Atlanta’s Star94 held an interview with NBC Dateline’s Chris Hansen yesterday morning which was really interesting. Last night another episode in his series To Catch a Predator aired where the focus was on predators in New Jersey.
During the interview Hansen gave some statistics from the show. Since the series began 3 years ago, 286 [...]

Risking Life and Identity To Serve Our Country

The personal details of over half a million US service personnel and their relatives may have been compromised by a Pentagon contractor according to this source. The risk comes from data that was sent unencrypted over the Internet which contained personal information including social security numbers, birth dates and health information.
The contract company at [...]

Identity Theft Summer Reading List

Those of you not reading Harry Potter this weekend might want to check out Terri Cullen’s book “The Wall Street Journal’s Complete Identity Theft Guidebook: How to Protect Yourself from the Most Pervasive Crime in America.”
Terri is the WSJ’s personal finance columnist. If you read the paper yesterday you might have seen her piece [...]

Studying the Odds for Online Interpersonal Victimization of Youth

Amy Tiemann has a blog post on CNET titled Online Safety Needs to Go Beyond “Don’t Talk to Strangers.” The focus of the post is on an Internet Prevention Messages research study to explore the odds for online interpersonal victimization (i.e. unwanted sexual solicitation or harassment) of youth ages 10-17 published in the February [...]

Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho; It’s off to jail he goes…

A sexual predator in Connecticut that used MySpace to meet his 12-15 year old female victims is going to jail for 20 years, according to this television news source. While this might not be the first incidence of a sexual predator linked to a social networking site being sentenced, it is the first I’ve [...]