The Liberty Alliance is to form a technical group to
address the rising threat of identity theft.
The organisation, best known for its work on developing industry
standards to deliver secure online authentication for users, is to
form the Identity Theft Protection Group.
The group will aim to find technical solutions to prevent
identity theft. Identity theft cases and losses of personal data
have recently affected a number of high-profile organisations in
the US, with incidents happening at CitiBank, MCI, Lexis-Nexis,
Stanford University, Time Warner, Bank of America, and data brokers
ChoicePoint.
American Express and Fidelity Investments, already involved in
the Liberty Alliance’s online authentication work, are expected to
be involved in the new identity theft group.
The first US meeting of the new group will take place next
month.
