Wednesday, January 22, 2003

FTC says incidence of ID theft jumped in 2002. Although the number of reported cases of identity theft shot up nearly 88% last year, some say the federal numbers are only the tip of a much of larger problem. [Computerworld News] 6:45:06 PM

Identity theft complaints on the rise By Margaret Kane, Staff Writer, CNET News.com January 22, 2003, 10:11 AM PT Complaints about identity theft have risen 73 percent from a year ago, according to a new report from the Federal Trade Commission. ..."What we're seeing increasingly is ID theft that occurred because some insider sees information and steals it from a company. It may be an ID list or a customer list. And there's very little a consumer can do to prevent that," he said [Howard Beales III, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection]. "It's clear that the growth of the Internet has changed the kinds of fraud that appear," Beales said at a press conference. "There are kinds of frauds that were virtually dead that the Internet has brought back, because it's so easy to contact large numbers of people--chain letters are an example. But we don't have any evidence that it's changed the total amount of fraud, just changed the channels (that fraudsters) reach people through." 11:34:45 AM

Mitch Ratcliffe comments on Windley's DigitalWorld post Government's role in digital ID 7:36:10 AM

More from Doc Searls on Digital ID Back on the Digital Identity front, Andre gives us Three Phases of Identity Infrastructure Adoption. It's a landmark piece. If you care about this stuff, read it. On the phone yesterday Dave Sifry told me that I've been conflating a familiar corporate subject ? identity management, or Digital Identity (aka DigID) ? with something new and very different: relationship management, grounded in what Andre calls Tier One, or T1 (My) Identity. Relationship management, which requires fully empowered customers, and a customer-centric Digital ID infrastructure, implements the founding Cluetrain rant, spoken from the customer's side of the demand-supply relationship: "Deal with it" I just hope that whatever it is that's being built by Liberty, PingID and others on the supply side won't leave room only for a wide-bodied version of the old producer-consumer system that's about relationships in label only. What we need is a killer T1 "Mydentity" app (hint, this isn't it). Without it, the "federation" of our identites among a bunch of big suppliers is hardly a dream come true. By the way, the first step toward both relationship and identity infrastructure is quite likely what SourceID made available this week. Bryan's been working hard on it for a long time. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 4:09:42 AM

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