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2/1/08 – Online Reputation
...help either companies or individuals keep their reputations and identitiy intact... |
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1/23/08 – Consumers to Benefit From Scope of Combined Services
Adding the benefits of online credit monitoring to the IdentitySweep 360 product. |
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12/28/07 – Private Firms Urged to Adopt IdentitySweep
The Consumers Union recently urged policymakers to limit hackers' access to Social Security numbers... |
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8/8/07 – IdentitySweep to Help Protect Microsoft Money Plus Consumers
IdentitySweep is a unique product with a proven track record of helping consumers protect themselves from the growing concern of identity theft," said Chris Jolley, group manager of the Financial Products Group at Microsoft Corp. |
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5/4/07 – PC World Discusses MyPublicInfo as Red Herring Winner
offers a service that reports on all your publicly available information it can find,
for a fee, and another that offers to alert you if it finds your credit card
number or other sensitive information. |
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5/2/07 – MyPublicInfo Wins Red Herring 100 Award for 2007
MyPublicInfo was among 100 recipients of Red Herring's award for "100 Innovative
and Disruptive Companies" for 2007. |
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5/2/07 – "Dr. Identity" Identity Theft Prevention Blog Officially
Launches
Get the latest news, information, and resources on identity theft from "Dr. Identity," a
new blog brought to you by MyPublicInfo! |
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4/21/07 – "Why You Should Spy on Yourself"
The problem: The screening agency had confused Mr. McMeekin with a convicted man who shared his surname. |
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4/16/07 – Let's talk Identity Theft
We do have suggestions for
how to protect yourself and your company from this hulking monster |
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4/11/07 – MyPublicInfo Adds "Recovery Butler" ID Recovery Kit to
Signature IdentitySweep Product
MyPublicInfo, Inc. a leading provider of identity theft scoring and monitoring
solutions, today announced the addition of "Recovery Butler," a full-service
identity restoration kit to its signature identity theft prevention service,
IdentitySweep. |
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4/6/07 – Your Info For Sale
This afternoon, one of our producers talked to Harold Kraft from
Identitysweep.com. He invited us into an online meeting where he showed
hundreds of conversations between scammers who are trying to buy and sell
people's information. |
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4/4/07 – RISK AND INSURANCE MANAGEMENT SOCIETY, INC. OFFERS
IDENTITYSWEEP TO MEMBERS
The Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS) announced that it will offer
the MyPublicInfo Inc. signature identity theft prevention service, IdentitySweep,
as a discounted special benefit to RIMS members |
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3/26/07 – Interview With MPI Founders Dr. Harold Kraft and Pat Dane.
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3/1/07 – Scoring Your Identity: New Tactics Root Out The False Use Of
Personal Data
As identity theft--and worry about it--burgeons around the world, online services
are springing up to fight it. |
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2/27/07 – Internet Search
Engines List Your Personal Information
Virginia that will do the work for you. MyPublicInfo scans thousands of
websites, search engines, even blogs and submits removal requests for you for $5
a month." |
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2/26/2007– Find, destroy
Services clean up online problems
Public Information Profile,
an exhaustive report trying to gather anything one can find across the Web. |
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2/15/2007 – TechNewsWorld:
Identity Scoring: New Defense Against Data Breaches
...MyPublicInfo utilizes identity scoring as the basis for several of its products... |
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2/6/2007 – Market Wire:
MyPublicInfo Offering Protection Plan in Effort to Curb Child Identity Theft
Proactive Identity Management Service From MyPublicInfo Now Offered as Premium Family Package |
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1/29/2007 – Wall Street Journal:
How to Protect Your Private Information - Your life is an open book online. It doesn't have to be.
At least one service has sprung up to assist people who want to
remove their names from these people-finder sites. MyPublicInfo Inc. in
May began offering its IdentitySweep service, which for $4.95 a month will
comb about 50 different directory sites for personal information....then fill
out all the required opt-out forms and will monitor the sites to make sure
the information stays removed. |
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1/29/2007 – Market Wire:
Identity Theft Protection for 40 Million Victims of T.J. Maxx Security Breach
IdentitySweep.com Offers Identity Theft Protection for 40 Million Victims of T.J. Maxx Security Breach |
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1/23/2007 – Market Wire:
HR Trend 2007: Identity Sweep Protection Service Offered as Employee Benefit Packages
Proactive Identity Scoring Service From MyPublicInfo Now Offered as Part of Benefits Packages to Protect Employees and Employers |
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1/19/2007 – Tech Forum Live:
Know the Score-New Forensic Tools in the Fight Against Online Crime
Prevent becoming a victim of identity theft and identity confusion with the proactive tools from IdentitySweep. |
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1/19/2007 – Dallas Star Telegram:
Identity thieves nabbing more than card numbers
Using your info, thieves are accessing healthcare - billed to you - which you won't likely find out about until collection agencies start calling. |
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1/16/2007– Market Wire:
MPI Releases Latest Data on Identity Security Breaches
Exclusive Identity Scoring engine reveals 72% of subscribers had their full address disclosed online, |
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1/9/2007 – Fast Company:
Keep Out
The newest innovations in Web security and privacy. |
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1/8/2007 – CNN Money:
The Complete Layman's Guide to Cyber Safety
Your guide to guarding against ID theft, online scams, computer break-ins and other 21st century threats. |
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12/20/2006 – Human Capital Magazine:
Identity Theft in the Workplace
Protectng your company and your employees' information |
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12/11/2006 – Washington Times:
Copywriter takes aim at identity thieves
Identity scoring and credit identity theft expert Martin Boswell joins the MyPublicinfo team. |
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10/25/2006 – PC Magazine:
Are Identity Protection Services Effective? Who Knows?
Analysts say that identity scoring will "overtake credit report monitoring" by 2009. But how effective is either measure? It's hard to say, even service providers admit.... |
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9/19/2006 – Wall Street Journal Online:
Guard your identity for a price.
IdentitySweep scans public databases and alerts consumers to possible fraud ... |
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9/11/2006 – Chicago Sun-Times:
New help available in protecting identity
It's scary to think that someone has stolen your credit cards and ruined your credit history. But it's even scarier to consider that someone else has assumed your entire identity by taking your Social Security number and creating a completely different persona... |
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8/21/2006 –Identity Theft: A Speed Course For Associations
Build member loyalty and trust by equipping members with tools that can help prevent identity theft and mitigate the consequences of a data breach... |
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7/21/2006 – TheStreet.com:
Protecting Yourself From Identity Theft
Interview with MyPublicInfo's CEO Dr. Harold Kraft... |
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7/20/2006 – Yahoo! Finance: Consumers Can Make Sense of Their Dollars With Microsoft Money Essentials
New download helps consumers effortlessly keep an eye on spending and stay a step ahead of monthly bills... |
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7/19/2006 – CNN Money: HR Secrets: Worker 'Screening' on the Rise
Like a body scan, employee screenings may reveal more than you expect and could cost you a job... |
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June 2006 – Bank Technology News: Catch Identity Theft in Its Earliest Stages
IdentitySweep, a new service that scans public records, the Internet and online directories for consumers' personal information, for $4.95 per month.... |
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5/26/2006 – CNNMoney.com: Doing Right by 26.5 Million Vets
And while we're at it, why don't we do right by everyone else as well when it comes to identity theft... |
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5/26/2006 – KYW News Radio, Philadelphia: Stolen Data Has Veterans and ID Theft Experts Worried
"It's a new kind of identity theft, called 'synthetic' identity theft, whereby somebody actually modifies your Social, uses your name and their address and creates a new or 'cloned' identity." |
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5/25/2006 – Wall Street Journal: Veterans Get Fraud-Fighting Help
"MyPublicInfo will give veterans access to IdentitySweep, which scours public records and Web sites in search of stolen data and signs of fraud." |
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5/24/2006 – Yahoo! Finance: Robert Siciliano Recommends Using MyPublicInfo's Identity Protection Service, IdentitySweep
"Siciliano encouraged all those on the list of 26.5 million affected by this week's laptop theft to immediately enroll in MyPublicInfo's IdentitySweep, a service that manages subscribers' public records while monitoring their credit card information and Social Security numbers. Veterans can go to www.identitysweep.com/vet and receive a full year's subscription for the discounted rate of $18." |
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5/24/2006 – Cybercast News Service: MyPublicInfo's Technology Could Help Government Protect Their Records
"MyPublicInfo.com is also working on a credentialing process that would allow individuals to allow or deny access to confidential, personal information in public records..." |
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5/24/2006 – IDTheftSecurity.com: How to Deal With the Week�s Burglary of 26.5 U.S. Veterans� Identities
"All of you on the list of 26.5 million affected by this week's laptop theft should immediately enroll in a service like IdentitySweep, which manages subscribers' public records while monitoring their credit card information and Social Security numbers. Veterans can go to www.identitysweep.com/vet and receive a full year's worth of IdentitySweep for only $18, a discounted rate, from MyPublicInfo, the Arlington, VA – based consumer identity protection company that created the service. The Social Security number is the key to the kingdom, and it's a number these thieves now have – along with the dates of birth for the veterans affected and for some of these veterans' spouses." |
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5/23/2006 – New York Times: Rowan, of the Vietnam veterans' group, said the Veterans Affairs Department should do more
"MyPublicInfo said they had discount packages for veterans affected by the theft." |
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5/22/2006 – Yahoo! Finance: MyPublicInfo Offers Special Social Security Monitoring Service for Veterans Following Theft of 26.5 Million Veterans' Personal Information
Unique Service Monitors Social Security Numbers and Credit Card Information and Manages Public Records |
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5/17/2006 – Yahoo! Finance: Edentify and MyPublicInfo to Empower Consumers With Powerful New Tool for Finding and Eliminating Identity Theft in Public Records
For the first time, consumers can analyze their own public record data for inconsistencies, mistakes, and evidence of identity theft. |
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5/17/2006 – Financial Times: Reclaimed Information is a Challenge for Old Order
"Identitysweep, a $5 a month service that helps its members remove their information from internet lists. It also alerts them if their credit card numbers are sold online..." |
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5/16/2006 – Market Wire IdentitySweep Gets Over 10,000 Subscriptions in Its First Week of Being Live
Unique Service Identifies Earliest Signs of Identity Theft, Manages Consumers' Public Records and Monitors Consumers' Credit Card Information |
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5/9/2006 – Yahoo! Finance: MyPublicInfo's IdentitySweep, the First Proactive Consumer Identity Management Service, Now Live |
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3/12/2006 – Wall Street Journal Sunday: No Sure-fire Cure – Many Products Fight ID Theft But None Fully Prevent It
"The faster you know your identity is stolen, the easier it is to deal with the problem. MyPublicInfo, in Washington, DC, sells reports detailing information culled from many public databases..." |
| The Washington Post |
3/12/2006 – Washington Post: Everything You Ever Knew About Yourself – for $79.95
Washington Post columnist Don Oldenburg discusses MyPublicInfo, the PIP, and why consumers must check their public records. |
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2/28/2006 – KOIT Radio San Francisco
KOIT interview on synthetic identity risk and how MPI solves identity management issues |
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12/21/2005 – Edentify: Edentify and MyPublicInfo Bring Patented Identity Management Tools to Consumers
"Edentify's identity management solutions are used by financial institutions to detect and stop identity fraud, and now that fraud prevention technology is available to protect our customers from the potentially devastating impact of identity theft..." |
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12/20/2005 – CBS News: Jeff Seldin of CBS Affiliate WTOP
"1 in 23 adults will be victimized this year alone... the cost is just under $80 dollars for info you can't really get yourself..." |
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12/13/2005 – CardCops: Enhanced ID Protection by Monitoring Blogs, Chat Rooms, NewsGroups
"The CardCops database contains millions of credit cards and over 7 million data elements of compromised personal information found in cyberspace.... Combining the technological know-how of MypublicInfo and CardCops will result in the ultimate suite of identity protection tools..." |
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12/1/2005 – Law Office Computing: On the Record
"PIP provides a report after accessing more public records databases than any other service...and includes a six-month subscription to its resources..." |
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11/21/2005– Scientific American: MPI Allows Consumers to View Their Complete Public record
Reports attached to their identity.
Credit reports only give a small, outdated picture.
MyPublicInfo gathers a much broader, complete dossier for the consumer
from legal, government and educational records. |
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10/19/2005 – Yahoo! Finance: New Program Allows Travelers to Earn Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Miles and Benefit From Identity Theft Protection via MyPublicInfo's PIP Tool
"The unique service will allow travelers to view public records that are connected to their name and what information is accessible to others when performing a broad background check..." |
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10/14/2005 – NewsMax.com: NewsMax Endorses PIP
"We rarely endorse a product or service. But we used Dr. Kraft's PIP ourselves, and we realized this service is essential for any Americans who want to protect themselves from fraud or other bureaucratic woes..." |
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10/12/2005 – Yahoo! Finance: PIP Considered the Best for Identity Theft Prevention and Resolution
The PIP "offers a strong shield of prevention and protection that can deter even the most sophisticated ID thieves – and stop them in their tracks..." |
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10/06/2005 – Wall Street Journal: New Services Guard Against ID Theft
"'That is the best protection you can get now,' says Avivah Litan, a research vice president at Gartner Inc....[competitor] and MyPublicInfo dispute which has access to more records. A quick test seems to favor MyPublicInfo..." |
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10/03/2005 – About.com: Public Information Profile: Protect Your Identity
"I ordered a copy of my PIP. It dug up an impressive amount of information going back quite a few years. .. the value of the PIP isn't in verifying your known information, but in ensuring that no false information exists..." |
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9/23/2005 – ID Theft Secrets Blog: 7 ID Theft Prevention Reasons to Check Your Non Credit Public Information
The PIP "is a detailed summary of the vast quantity of information available to others about you. MyPublicInfo.com sifts through more than 10 billion records to verify your identity and build your PIP...." |
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9/21/2005 – Global Fraud Solutions: MyPublicInfo Announces Partnership with Global Fraud Solutions, LLC
"Most consumers simply do not realize the sheer volumes of information that is readily available about them nor the thousands of sources of this information ndash; let alone how to retrieve or review it. The MPI Public Information Profile report offers enormous value to every consumer who is concerned about Identity Theft, and to those who have been victimized and are struggling to determine the extent of the damage..." |
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9/14/2005 – Yahoo! Finance: Hurricane Katrina Has Greatly Elevated the Risk of Identity Theft
"Public records, personal financial information, and other important documents are strewn across an area the size of Great Britain for everyone to see. There's no telling how many of Katrina evacuees will find that their identities have been compromised by thieves..." |
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9/14/2005 – Electronic Publishing Services: Identity Confusion and Public Records Identity Theft Give Rise to a New Public Record Search Service
"As we know from current and past experiences, identity confusion and public record identity theft can be devastating...A review of ones' PIP can be an eye-opening experience. It provides a vivid overview of a life-long trail of events, from buying and selling homes, getting mortgages, applying for drivers' licenses, having a lien or judgment, etc. It also exposes errors such as an employer inadvertently dropping the first letter of a name, thus creating a new record at the same address, registered and obviously never corrected..." |
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8/31/2005 – Yahoo!: Citizens Can Avoid Identity Confusion by Routinely Checking Their Public Dossiers
"Identity confusion can cost its victims access to insurance, mortgages, leases on apartments, or even job offers. When names are similar, background checks can fail to distinguish the criminal's record from the law-abiding citizen's. Consumers must check their public records regularly to catch the mistake before it happens..." |
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8/22/2005 – Yahoo!: Citizens Have a New Tool to Help Them Take Control of Their Identities
"While we all have the right to expect industry and government to rise to the challenges of identity theft, we can -- and must -- do a lot, ourselves, to make sure nothing is awry with our identities..." |
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8/4/2005 – Yahoo!: LocatePLUS Announces Channel Partnership with MyPublicInfo
"The accuracy of our public personal records is critical; most often this data forms the basis for qualifying individuals for employment, insurance, loans, purchasing real estate, and even voting privileges..." |
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7/27/2005 – SnagABlog: The Identity You May Not Know You Have
"Many jobs require that you submit to a background check... if a mistake has labeled you a convicted felon, you might not get the job. How can you save yourself from a terrible mistake like this? Two years ago, you would have been out of luck. Now, however, there is a company called MyPublicInfo that specializes in providing individuals with access to their public records. Though the service is not free, it would undoubtedly be money well spent..." |
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7/25/2005 – WPEC-TV (CBS) Channel 12, West Palm Beach, FL: You may be surprised to learn just how much of your personal life is in public records for anyone to see.
"Of course, you could run around to every government building to check the records yourself or you can pay someone to do it for you on-line..." |
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7/20/2005 – Computer Security News: Identity Theft Protection Software Provides Access to Public Records for Users
"MyPublicInfo has created identity theft protection software after the recent explosion in identity theft cases across America. The software gives consumers access to public records connected to their name, enabling them to spot identity confusion and possible cases of identity theft..." |
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7/17/2005 – Financial DNA: MyPublicInfo Review
"MyPublicInfo is certainly an interesting addition that provides consumers with a truly unique snapshot of all publicly available database records, allowing consumers to spot existing suspicious identity activity..." |
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7/16/2005 – PC Magazine: New Ways to Discover ID Theft
"Find out what others can learn about you and review for accuracy and errors..." |
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7/14/2005 – The Economist: A PIP of Progress
"There, on a screen, is their entire life... As hair-raising as using Mr. Kraft's PIP can be, it is a big step forward..." |
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7/14/2005 – PC Magazine: Worried about identity theft?
"The PIP presents findings in eight major areas including real estate, criminal records, and professional licenses. It includes links to the original source in most cases, as well as links for dealing with erroneous or fraudulent information. Your subscription buys one PIP plus six months of access to the detailed data and resources..." |