FTC Takes Against Life Lock – Again

July 22, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

In documents filed in district court today, the FTC said that LifeLock failed to live up to it’s 2010 settlement with the FTC and asked the court to order full redress to all consumers affected. The 2010 settlement stemmed from the FTC complaining that LifeLock used false claims to sell it’s services (remember when their […]

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Credit Monitoring Services – Are They Worth It?

June 8, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

It is common, if not automatic, for companies that have their information systems breached to offer credit monitoring services, and this includes medical record breaches. Consumers can also pay companies like Lifelock to provide the same services. The question is do they work and the answer is, for the most part, not really. Brian Krebs […]

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