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The Motley Fool March 29, 2006 Rich Smith	Equifax Gets Some Competition Credit-checker Experian is currently part of the U.K.-based retail and financial services conglomerate GU.S. Plc. GUS has decided to split itself in two sometime within the next year, spinning off Experian as one independent public company, and Argos Retail as another. Investors, take note.
PC Magazine August 22, 2008 Matthew D. Sarrel	Thwarting Identity Theft Identity theft has been a federal offense since 1998. But are we getting any better at dealing with it? Actually, we are. Here are several tips to prevent financial loss from identity theft.
Entrepreneur September 2005 Scott Bernard Nelson	Reporting In Federal law now allows you to check your credit reports for free every year. Here's how to access them -- and protect your credit rating.
The Motley Fool December 19, 2006 Mary Dalrymple	Credit Check Countdown Meet your end-of-year deadline to order a free credit report.
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PC World April 29, 2008 Dan Tynan	Identity-Theft Protection: What Services Can You Trust? New online services offer to protect you from identity theft, and some claim to help you undo damage after it happens. But when we tested the services, we found that many fall short.
The Motley Fool August 20, 2004 Dayana Yochim	Your FICO Score Is a Lie The credit reporting industry is overextended, and it's up to you to fix it.
PC Magazine May 1, 2009 Matthew D. Sarrel	Identity Theft: It's Out of Your Hands The most important thing you have is you, right? And online, you are your identity. If xyz.com doesn't value you enough to keep you safe, then does that company really deserve your business?
Financial Advisor July 2006 Gail Liberman	Credit Score Surprises Credit scores can jump up and bite your financial advisory clients in ways you'd think were almost impossible. More data collected from more sources is used in unexpected ways.
The Motley Fool February 14, 2007 Mary Dalrymple	Fix Your Credit, Reap the Profits Improving your credit score can be great for your wallet. Once you know how lenders weigh your behavior, you can take the right steps to improve your image.
The Motley Fool January 3, 2006 Dayana Yochim	Credit Score Need a Boost? Getting more credit isn't the best way to improve your score. In the end, the key to improved credit isn't sexy. The passage of time and the responsible use of credit during those years are your best bets for building your score.
The Motley Fool July 3, 2006 Tim Beyers	Give Veterans a Free Credit Check Score one for the Feds in the war against identity theft. A stolen laptop with vets' personal data is returned, but this isn't over.
The Motley Fool November 21, 2006 Dan Caplinger	Get the FACTs, Jack With its numerous provisions designed to give you access to your credit information, FACT gives you a powerful arsenal that allows you to be proactive in managing your credit, far beyond just checking your monthly credit card statements for items you didn't buy.
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CIO January 1, 2003 Alison Bass	Identity Crisis If identity theft isn't already on your radar screen, this headline will put it there: 13,000 Credit Reports Stolen by Hackers. To avoid a similar disaster on their turf, CIOs should insist their company's customer data be kept in separate databases protected by a number of different security measures.
The Motley Fool October 31, 2008 Dayana Yochim	Credit Dings Bring Insurance Woes It turns out that spendthrift ways may have an impact on what you pay to insure your car and home, even if you're a long-standing customer and generally an upstanding citizen.
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CIO October 12, 2009 Kim S. Nash	Cloud Computing: How TransUnion Makes Money from Its Private Cloud Credit reporting giant TransUnion replaced custom-developed services with cloud computer capabilities for its customers.
The Motley Fool June 20, 2006 Dayana Yochim	Fake Credit Scores for Sale You might be surprised how label-conscious your lender really is. No matter what the scoring scale, all of these systems are designed to achieve one goal -- to see how risky it is to do business with you based on your past behavior.
Inc. May 2007 Daniel Akst	The Dangers of Identity Theft Entrepreneurs are especially vulnerable to identity fraud.
Bank Systems & Technology October 7, 2009	TransUnion Adds ID Analytics' Solutions to Risk Suite of Services The identity intelligence provider's solutions broaden TransUnion's product portfolio in collections, credit and identity risk services.
Entrepreneur October 2005 Paul & Sarah Edwards	Offering Credit to New Customers Never get burned again with these three tips for checking customer credit.
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InternetNews March 14, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Freeze Your Identity to Stop ID Theft TrustedID thinks that it has the simple answer to stopping identity thieves from stealing your personal information by giving consumers control over access to their credit reports and information.
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Inc. August 2003 Robert X. Cringely	They've Got Your Number Identity theft using a combination of computer technology and government information is a major crime just waiting to happen.
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The Motley Fool March 30, 2009 Dayana Yochim	Denied Credit? Here's How to Deal A good strategy -- at least when it comes to getting rejected for a line of credit -- is to prove the lender wrong.
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InternetNews March 31, 2010	FBI, DOJ Identity Theft Programs Fall Short A new report from the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General says the government is making a big mistake by not making ID theft prevention and prosecution a top priority.
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