Category: child identity theft

One in 10 children are targeted for identity theft. This rate is often higher for the 380,000 children in the foster care system. As May is National Foster Care Month, it is important to recognize that foster children are prime targets for identity theft for a number of reasons. Their Social Security Numbers go with [...]

This post comes to us from Anne Livingston, the creator of the KidsPrivacy blog. She is writer and speaker with a passion for teaching parents and kids how to manage life online. Follow her on twitter @kidsprivacy. When I talk to my kids about what not to post online, I focus primarily on information that [...]

What a busy month for us. March was full of events, research reports, awards and more. Take a look at the highlights below: CSID at SXSWiSince we’re headquartered in Austin, TX, home to South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi), we take part in the festival each year. This year we hosted a booth at the Tech [...]

One in 10 children will become victim to child identity theft and the thieves can go unnoticed for years as children’s credit reports may not be checked until they turn 18. Many times families discover the crime when the child applies for his or her first credit card, loan or apartment and are met with [...]

On Thursday, we co-hosted a live Twitter chat with the National Cyber Security Alliance campaign Stop. Think. Connect. and the FTC. This chat focused on the issues, risks and solutions associated with child identity theft. To participate in the conversation, Twitter users tagged each Tweet with hashtag, #ChatSTC. Overall, we had a great turnout and [...]

In our recent consumer research survey, we found that a whopping 43% of parents do not know that child identity theft is a growing concern, and only 18% of parents are concerned with their child’s identity being stolen online. Meanwhile, according to ITAC’s 2012 Child Identity Fraud Report, one in 40 U.S. households with minor [...]

Recently the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published an amendment to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), an important development in protecting children’s privacy online.  Most notably, the FTC updated the definition of “personal information” to include IP and location information. What this means – parents now have greater control over what information can be [...]

One out of ten children is targeted for identity theft. Child identity theft is a rising problem. Upon stealing a child’s social security number, a thief can run up a hefty amount of credit card debt, take out loans and establish driver’s licenses—and the crimes often go unnoticed until the victim is of age to [...]