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If You Maintain Non-Public Data, You Need To Be Compliant With Federal and State Laws or Risk Thousands Of Dollars In Fines, Civil Suites And Lost Business Reputation As Noted In A Recent Article Appearing In The Chester County Press.
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Our services include a FREE ID Theft Risk Management business review so you can learn what you need to do to reduce your liability for identity theft in the workplace. We provide an Identity Theft Risk Management Assessment for most companies at surprising low fees (usually under $500, most at no charge).
Our Identity Theft Risk Management Assessment will give you a road map to securing sensitive non-public information you maintain on your employees, customers, prospects, vendors and even your business' own identity.
We hold mandatory education sessions with all of your company personnel at no additional charge. So whether you are a business of one or twenty one thousand, you need to implement reasonable measures to help prevent identity theft in the workplace.
ID Risk Management support service will ...
- Provide our "must see", in-house, 45 minute "Identity Theft Awareness and Protection" seminar at no obligation prior to any further services as our way of saying thanks for inviting us into your business. This seminar will teach your employees how they can monitor and restore their ID for free without any gimmicks
- Teach you what your business needs to do in a 30-35 minute PowerPoint presentation which we bring to you in our introductory meeting.
- Help your company create an Identity Theft Prevention Policy
- Help you appoint a Data Security Officer as required by the FTC
- Help
your company and employees understand state and federal regulations concerning identity theft in the workplace legislation
- Help
your company to mitigate losses in cases of a data breach of non-public
Information by your implementation of our Identity Theft Risk Management services
- Educate
your employees about the need for protecting confidential data within the workplace
- Help your company create a written employee agreement, signed by employees, acknowledging their participation in your company's Identity Theft Prevention Program.
- Help your bottom line by mitigating losses because you implemented the suggested FTC guidelines on maintaining data security in the workplace.
- Help
your bottom line through employee participation in services that will protect them and their families before, during and
after an identity theft incident.
- Reduce employee absenteeism
- Reduce the use of medical benefits
- Reduce employee stress
- Increase employee productivity which increases company profitability
- Our Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist (CITRMS) will facilitate implementation of programs.
- We are backed by NYSE Companies for ongoing services to your company and your employees.
- Our CITRMS is available to your organization on an as-needed basis at no charge. Our goal is your success in securing your non-public data through secure management policies.
Click here to download a sample of our work guide:
"Protecting Personally Identifiable Information in the Workplace: A Study Guide"
Remember, In most circumstances, all of the above is provided at no out-of-pocket costs to your company or other organizational entity including what you learn from the FTC tutorial link above.
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Using Consumer Reports
If you are using consumer reports complied by a business that provides such information to make a decision you must follow the FTC guidelines closely. Click here to learn more.
Assisting Victims
If an individual contacts you claiming to be a victim of identity theft, stemming from a transaction involving your company, you have certain federal mandates to follow. Under the 2003 amendments to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (PDF, 192 KB) (FCRA) section 609(e), identity theft victims are entitled to get from businesses a copy of the application or other business transaction records relating to their identity theft free of charge. You may use this download able sample letter that consumers may send to businesses, along with the relevant law, on this website.
Businesses must provide these records within 30 days of receipt of the victim’s request. Businesses must also provide these records to any law enforcement agency which the victim authorizes.
Businesses may select a specific address to which requests from victims must be mailed. If the business does not have a high degree of confidence that it knows the victim, before providing the records, the business may ask victims for:
| 1. | proof
of identity, which may be a government-issued ID card, the same type of
information the identity thief used to open or access the account, or
the type of information the business is currently requesting from
applicants or customers |
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| 2. | a police report and a completed affidavit, which may be either the FTC ID Theft Affidavit (PDF, 56 KB) or the business’s own affidavit. |
This FCRA provision does not require a business to change its current information or record retention procedures. A business may decline to provide the records if, in good faith, it determines that this FCRA provision does not require disclosure, the business entity does not have a high degree of confidence in knowing the true identity of the requester after reviewing the proof of identity provided by the requester, the requester has made a misrepresentation of fact relevant to the request, or the information requested is Internet navigational data or similar information about a person’s visit to a website or online service.
Although a business may not deny disclosure of these records based on Subtitle A of title V of Public Law 106-102, the business may deny disclosure if it is otherwise prohibited under other provisions of state or federal law.
For more information on these requirements see, FTC Facts for Business.
Data Breach Notification Laws
The National Conference of State Legislatures was founded in 1975 with the conviction that legislative service is one of democracy's worthiest pursuits. NCSL is a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories. NCSL provides research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on the most pressing state issues. NCSL is an effective and respected advocate for the interests of state governments before Congress and federal agencies.
The NCSL data breach legislation website can be
accessed at: www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/cip/priv/breach.htm
Note: Portions of this page content excerpted from the Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist (CITRMS) Reference Manual or Course. Used with permission from the author and The Institute of Fraud Management.
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