{"id":200041,"date":"2007-06-07T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/07\/why-identity-theft-should-not-be-left-to-the-private-market\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T16:51:00","slug":"why-identity-theft-should-not-be-left-to-the-private-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/07\/why-identity-theft-should-not-be-left-to-the-private-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Identity Theft Should Not Be Left to the Private Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because if it is, this will be the rule, not the exception.<\/p>\n<p>Call your congressman and tell him that you should be able to have a credit freeze on demand.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2007\/06\/lifelock_founde.html\">Lifelock Founder a Shady Identity Thief?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Kim Zetter<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix New Times has published an investigative piece showing that Robert J. Maynard, Jr., one of the founders of Lifelock, a company offering a service to protect people from identity theft, is himself a suspected identity thief who may have stolen his own father&#8217;s identity, has a troubled financial past (including at least two bankruptcies), and was jailed in 2003 for defaulting on a $16,000 Las Vegas casino loan &#8212; an incident that the New Times says Maynard has lied about repeatedly to customers and reporters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because if it is, this will be the rule, not the exception. Call your congressman and tell him that you should be able to have a credit freeze on demand. Lifelock Founder a Shady Identity Thief? By Kim Zetter The Phoenix New Times has published an investigative piece showing that Robert J. Maynard, Jr., one &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,973,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-economy","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}