Tag archive: identity

Several thousand female Facebook users were informed that their accounts were accidentally disabled yesterday. CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized for the glitch, and assured anyone affected that the site was working to get them their accounts back. Facebook claims the issue was caused by a technical error in a program designed to locate and disable fake accounts. As it stands, the bug has been fixed, but the women with deactivated accounts are… Read More

The US is about to have and identity theft law. Known as the Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act, it’s passed Congress and is due to be signed into law the by President. The Act will let victims sue criminals for restitution, as well as eliminate the $5000 floor that previously existed for unauthorized access charges to be filed, Vnunet reports, as well as making it a felony to install malware on more than 10 computers.… Read More

We all know that identity theft is a major problem these days, and becoming more so every day. But in Britain there might finally be official action to combat it.   As National Identity Fraud Prevention Week begins in the UK, a task force of MPs, the All Party Group on Identity Theft, has recommended the creation of a post thatwould essentially be an identity fraud tsar to co-ordinate work by different organizations.   There were over… Read More