White House panel pushes new identity fraud laws
By Anne Broache, CNET News.com April 23, 2007
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This article talks how a federal task force is urging congress to enact a variety of new laws designed to punish identity fraud. The task force is advocating a new national strategy which will rewrite existing criminal laws to penalizie use of malicious spyware and keyloggers, to expand mandatory minimum prison sentences for certain levels of electronic data theft, and to allow identity theft victims to receive monetary compensation not only for their direct financial losses, but also for the time they spent piecing their lives back together. Identity fraud has been against the law for hundreds of year, and there are numerous state and federal laws to punish identity fraud. However, the task force feels that more needs to be done. They want to set up a national Identity Theft Law Enforcement Center.
I think that identity fraud is a very important issue. Someone got hold my friends social security number and it caused her a lot of trouble. The person who took her social security number was never caught. So, someone else will always have my friend’s “identity;” she can never get it back. I hope that this new government effort to prevent identity theft will be successful.
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They never caught the person?! Oh wow, that's pretty scary. How will this put her at risk for future problems? I hope she is still looking into this.
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