Senate Mulls Measures to Combat Identity Theft

NPR | By Larry Abramson

Published March 11, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

The Senate Banking Committee considers possible regulations to battle the growing problem of identity theft. The most recent Federal Trade Commission survey found that 10 million Americans were the victims of some type of identity theft in one year.

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