Beth Givens
Beth Givens
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If you engage in a business transaction with the bank you should have the expectation that the information will only be used to serve you and not help banks make money from marketing.
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If you're a busy person and you don't want to put the burden on yourself to call every three months and you have the money, these services could be a convenience and a comfort,
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If you've got your house, got your car, got your two credit cards and you know there's no other credit that you'll be getting in the near future and you're very, very, very concerned about identity theft, take advantage of the fraud alert,
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If you've got some time, you should be able to control your own junk mail, ... don't charge a lot of money, so if you are very busy, it might be worth it to you.
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If you've given them your credit-card number and/or bank-account number, you should watch those accounts very carefully.
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We really don?t have anything to compare it to. Victims are protected by federal law from having to pay fraudulent charges, so the loss is primarily of time.
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With so many uses made of credit report these days, it's vitally important that consumers regularly check them.
children ok society
(If) it's now going to be OK for children to be GPS-tracked, when is it going to be OK society wide?
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If the credit industry were doing a better job protecting you, we wouldn't need such products.
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I think a socially responsible response would be to list the names of the companies affected.
identity issue
I think it's probably going to be as big of an issue as say, identity theft.
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I think it's probably going to be as big of an issue as identity theft has been for the past decade. We hear from people almost daily who are having problems with their background checks.
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Sure, if you want your credit to be absolutely convenient, you would not select a credit freeze. But if you are a victim of identity theft, you would be happy to have that available to you. Ultimately, it is the only thing that will really stop identity theft.
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The FTC is reporting on the complaints that they've received, and it could be that more people know to report to the FTC when something bad happens to them.