FTC Focusing on Child Identity Theft, Holding Forum on July 12

The forum, entitled “Stolen Futures: A Forum on Child Identity Theft,” will discuss foster care and familial identity theft, which is a growing problem in these difficult economic times. Identity thieves often utilize their children’s or young relatives information to obtain credit cards and other credit and children’s sensitive personal information is also vulnerable to misuse for other reasons as well. This forum follows the FTC’s roundtable last year on its Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) rule. 

The FTC has noted that businesses may have a particular interest in children’s identity theft for a couple of reasons, which include raising awareness about this important issue and helping to stop an activity that can have significant economic consequences to businesses.

The forum will be held at the FTC’s Conference Center at 601 New Jersey Avenue in Washington, DC. Additional information including a tentative agenda, is available on the FTC’s website.

Authored by Timothy Tobin