4roddas points out an article at Techworld about the continued scourge of identify theft in the US, which begins: “Over the past five years, 43 US says have adopted data breach notification laws, but has all of this legislation actually cut down on identity theft? Not according to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University who have published a state-by-state analysis of data supplied by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). ‘There doesn’t seem to be any evidence that the laws actually reduce identity theft,’ stated Sasha Romanosky, a Ph.D student at Carnegie Mellon who is one of the paper’s authors. Since 1999 the FTC has invited identity theft victims to log information about their cases on its Web site. The data are then made accessible to law enforcement, which uses the information to help examine crime trends.”
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