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Truston Wins 2008 Hot Company Award
Feb 1, 2008 by Tom Fragala
On Tuesday, at the Technosium Conference in Silicon Valley, Truston was selected as a winner of the 2008 Hot Company awards by the Network Products Guide, published by Silicon Valley Communications. This comes after being named a finalist in November. All...
Disturbing: Texas schools give kids personal data to private company
Feb 4, 2008 by Tom Fragala
Came across this article in Dallas Morning News. The article refers to our child privacy tips in talking about a story of Texas schools giving kid's personal identifying information, including SSN, to a contractor, OZ Systems. But it underscores a...
Data Security Breach Report by ITRC
Feb 7, 2008 by Tom Fragala
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has released its 2007 Breach Report. They also maintain an ongoing 2008 Breach Report. In 2007, ITRC documented 448 paper and electronic breaches, potentially affecting more than 127 million records. This is a significant...
Do Not Call List May be Permanent Soon
Feb 11, 2008 by Tom Fragala
Under the somewhat misleading title "Congress Makes 'Do Not Call' List Permanent", Consumer Affairs.com reports that Congress (House and Senate) have voted for a bill entitled the Do Not Call Improvement Act of 2007 and now it goes to the...
Privacy tip: AT&T opt-out from marketing
Feb 12, 2008 by Tom Fragala
Important privacy notice. If you are an AT&T customer (including Cingular Wireless), you may receive a letter like I did that says "ServiceGram" on it. Do not throw it away. It allows you to opt-out from AT&T sharing your customer...
Identity theft top complaint: FTC releases annual report
Feb 15, 2008 by Tom Fragala
The Federal Trade Commision released it's annual publication "Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft Complaint Data" for January-December 2007. The number one complaint category, 4 times more than number 2, is, of course, identity theft. The FTC today released the list of top consumer...
Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act
Feb 17, 2008 by Tom Fragala
There is a bill in Congress called the Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2007. It passed in the Senate in November 2007 (S.2168) and referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary in December. According to the Bankers...
Brokerage and investment account fraud
Feb 24, 2008 by Tom Fragala
In the midst of so much noise about identity theft, credit reports, freezes and alerts here is some important advice. Don't forget to protect your brokerage, investment and retirement accounts; financial accounts like those you open with a stockbroker or...
Truston Partners with Identity Force for Online ID Theft Protection
Feb 26, 2008 by Tom Fragala
Today we announced a new partnership with Identity Force. Identity Force is the leading provider of identity theft protection services to the U.S. government. Identity Force offers a broad suite services such as credit monitoring, credit reports & scores, insurance,...
One Year Anniversary of MyTruston
Feb 26, 2008 by Tom Fragala
Today is the 1 year anniversary of the public launch of Truston's MyTruston service. Thank you to everyone that has signed up for our service and placed your trust in us. We take that very seriously, which is why we are...