WASHINGTON – Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and Federal Trade Commission Chairman William E. Kovacic announced today the release of a report from the President’s Identity Theft Task Force on progress the federal government has made in addressing identity theft since the Task Force’s Strategic Plan was released last year.
Highlights of the report include expansion of the Task Force’s data security and identity theft business and consumer education campaigns; exploring means of improving consumer authentication processes to prevent the use of stolen information to commit identity theft; launching new initiatives to help identity theft victims recover; and improving law enforcement tools to investigate and prosecute identity thieves.
The Strategic Plan, issued in April 2007, outlined 31 recommendations the federal government should undertake to help prevent the theft and misuse of consumers’ personal information, help consumers detect and recover from identity theft, and increase the prosecution and punishment of identity thieves. Following the release of the Strategic Plan, Task Force members worked with others in the public, private, and non-profit sectors to implement the recommendations. Some of the steps detailed in today’s report taken by task force agencies include the following:
Preventing Identity Theft
Assisting Consumers to Detect and Recover From Identity Theft
Investigating, Prosecuting, and Punishing Identity Thieves
The Task Force report emphasizes that, due to the dynamic and rapidly changing nature of identity theft, the struggle to protect consumers’ personal information will not end with the implementation of the recommendations from the Strategic Plan. Government and the private sector, working together with consumers, must remain vigilant and adaptable as new generations of identity thieves and techniques develop over the coming years. The full task force report and other information on federal efforts to combat identity theft may be found at http://www.idtheft.gov.
The Identity Theft Task Force, co-chaired by the Attorney General and the FTC Chairman, was established by Executive Order of the President on May 10, 2006, and is now comprised of 17 federal agencies and departments.
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