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Academic, Corporate, and Government Organizations Unite to Solve Identity Management Problems

- A new nonprofit organization will devote itself to solving identity management problems like identity theft through empirical research.

Annapolis Police Teach Residents "Trash Intelligence"

- A novel program teaches residents how their garbage can result in their identity being stolen.

Quick Bytes: Bucking the Law

- Data breach laws do not reduce states' rates of identity theft, according to a report from Carnegie Mellon researchers.

Identity Theft

- Despite their best intent, state data-breach notification laws do not reduce identity theft, according to a Carnegie Mellon study.

Britain's e-Passports Can be Counterfeited

- The Times (of London) reports Britain's "fake-proof" e-passports can be cloned in less than an hour.

Knowing the Customer's Type

- Typing-analysis software can be a user-friendly solution to authentication woes.

D.C. Metro Posts Employees' Social Security Numbers Online

- The mistake has exposed nearly 4,700 employees to the threat of identity theft.

Success for Federal Credentialing

- Recent government drills tested how government IDs help during an emergency.

Britain's Identity Crisis

- Support for one of the world's most ambitious identity card systems gradually chips away.

Trends in ID Cards

- A look at new card technologies and how companies are applying them.

Airlines, Embassies Against Collecting Biometric Info on Exiting Foreigners

- Both groups say it is the responsibility of the federal government to administer the exit portion of the US-VISIT program.

Identity Cards

- Support for the United Kingdom’s ambitious identity card system is ebbing away, reports a London think tank.

Privacy Expert to Government: Encrypt Biometric Information

- The U.S. needs to encrypt the personally identifiable biometric information it stores before a data breach exposes multitudes to identity theft, according to a leading privacy expert.