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Clearing the haze: addressing some lingering concerns about the FTC's Red Flags Rules.

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The woes of identity theft for both businesses and individuals have been compounded to near numbing levels. Billions upon billions of dollars each year are bled out of the nation's economy through a variety of crimes and schemes, and it's now to the point that everyone likely knows at least one person who has had their identity pilfered. In the war against this type of fraud, both federal and state governments have launched a number of offensives, including establishing cyber-crime law enforcement divisions and passing data security laws, in an attempt to curb damage and weave a tighter security net to protect consumers. One of the latest and most widely discussed has been ...

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