'Shred It Day' helps foil identity thievesCTV.ca Sat, 25 Mar 2006 4:56 PM PSTIdentity theft is the fastest growing form of consumer fraud and combating it is as easy as shredding documents with personal information. Identity Theft Scare For HP PensionersWCAX 3 Sun, 26 Mar 2006 6:50 AM PSTA scare for hundreds of people in our region after a laptop with personal information was stolen from Fidelity Investments. The company handles the retirement account for a business that was once in South Burlington. Charles A. Jaffe Single most crucial step to take to avert identity theftThe Philadelphia Inquirer Sun, 26 Mar 2006 2:37 AM PSTWhen Fidelity Investments acknowledged last week that a laptop holding the financial data of nearly 200,000 retirement-plan customers had been stolen, investors started worrying about the wrong thing. Benton man arrested on ID theft warrantBenton Courier Sat, 25 Mar 2006 2:03 PM PSTSaline County sheriff's deputies arrested Steve Bonds, 47, of Benton on a Little Rock Police Department warrant for financial identity theft and a parole violation warrant from Pulaski County on charges of writing hot checks, manufacture and delivery of controlled substances and forgery. Benton man gets 16 years for identity theftBenton Courier Sat, 25 Mar 2006 2:16 PM PSTChadwick Allen Austin, 29, was convicted this week on four counts of first-degree forgery. Saline County Circuit Judge Grisham Phillips followed Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Rebecca Bush's recommendation in sentencing Austin to 16 years in prison, with 10 years suspended. The Identity Summit 2006 begins in DubaiAME Info Sun, 26 Mar 2006 1:41 AM PSTA large number of international experts and industry professionals in biometrics, information security and smart cards are participating at the Fourth Middle East Biometrics Summit (Identity Summit 2006), which was inaugurated today at the Dusit Hotel in Dubai. Risky business: To prevent identityLisbon Morning Journal Sat, 25 Mar 2006 6:27 PM PSTLISBON - If you think identity thieves are only out for financial gain think again. Your health identity, your driving record, and criminal record, or lack of one, also may be at risk. Decision haunts attorney generalMiami Herald Sun, 26 Mar 2006 3:42 AM PSTThe disclosure that a company doing work for the state may have given cheap labor in India access to the confidential information of up to 100,000 state employees -- making them vulnerable to identity theft -- is starting to haunt the governor's race of state Attorney General Charlie Crist, who declined to investigate the case. Emergency ServicesThe Mail Tribune Sun, 26 Mar 2006 2:12 AM PSTVehicle theft, identity theft — Ian Patrick Robertson, 31, no known street address, Medford. A Jackson County sheriff’s deputy Friday arrested Robertson on charges of unlawful use of a motor vehicle, identity theft and seven out-of-county warrants. ID plan mooted for health, welfareNews Interactive Sun, 26 Mar 2006 6:57 AM PSTAUSTRALIANS could be issued with a health and welfare smart card to save on postage and prevent billions of dollars being lost to fraud and identity theft, under a plan to be debated by federal Cabinet this week.