The fight between financial institutions and fraudsters is an eternal one, and a key battlefield remains identifying customers at the initial point of interaction and onboarding. In short, making sure that a person or entity is who they say they are, is difficult in the digital age. New practices determining how...
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over states’ ability to prosecute illegal immigrants for identity theft if they use someone else’s Social Security number to get a job. According to a report in Bloomberg, the justices said they will rule on whether the...
The new Medicare cards are on their way to consumers, a process that includes giving users of the health payment service numbers that differ from their Social Security accounts — which could reduce identify theft. The Federal Trade Commission previously announced that the cards would...
Sizzle Of the Week: Grocery Customers It’s a good week to be a grocery shopper in America – because, after all, who doesn’t like being pursued? The grocery business in America is a $650 billion industry. And like the prettiest girl at the dance, America’s...
February 23, 2018
Sizzle Of the Week: Grocery Customers It’s a good week to be a grocery shopper in America – because, after all, who doesn’t like being pursued? The grocery business in America is a $650 billion industry. And like the prettiest girl at the dance, America’s grocery spend is the highly sought-after object of everyone’s affection. This […]
September 11, 2017
What have we learned from the Equifax hack? Maybe nothing? Maybe everything? Maybe something in between? The stats are alarming, of course. Equifax, which is one of the triumvirate of major consumer...
March 18, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over states’ ability to prosecute illegal immigrants for identity theft if they use someone else’s Social Security number to get a job. According to a report in Bloomberg, the justices said they will rule on whether the Supreme Court in Kansas was correct in determining that only […]
May 09, 2018
The new Medicare cards are on their way to consumers, a process that includes giving users of the health payment service numbers that differ from their Social Security accounts —...
October 04, 2017
Has the social security number moved so far past its prime that it is time to consider and alternative? That is increasingly the conclusion of Rob Joyce, White House cybersecurity...
