New Anti-ID Theft Effort Launched

Following on news from the Identity Theft Resource Center that data breaches have reached an all time high over the first eight months of 2008, a new venture involving government, private and educational constituents has been launched to help deal with the problem. Dubbed the Center for Applied Identity Management Research , the group is being backed by members including IBM, Indiana University, LexisNexis, the U.S. Secret Service and Visa. According to the organizations involved, CAIMR will be focused on "developing research and solutions for society's most daunting identity management challenges such as cybercrime, terrorism, financial crimes, identity theft and fraud, weapons of mass destruction, and narcotics and human trafficking." Now that's a broad swath of objectives, and it's pretty interesting to view issues of ID... [read full story]