As highlighted in this recent article (called “FTC recruiting identity theft victims”), FTC is planning to conduct a wide-range study on identity theft victims:
“In an effort to buttress its enforcement and better understand the scourge that is identity theft, the Federal Trade Commission said today its plans to conduct a wide-ranging study of victims of the crime.
The FTC is looking for people harmed by the crime and said the survey will examine the remedies available to victims under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT Act). Among other things, the FACT Act gave consumers the right to place fraud alerts on their credit files if they are, or suspect they may become, victims of identity theft; block information on their credit reports that resulted from identity theft; and obtain copies of their credit reports free of charge.”
More details are in the article mentioned above, including the URL of the FTC survey site (NOTE: at the moment of writing I tried to connect to this site but it does not work …).
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