In case you didn’t hear, the latest hoo-hah from the FTC is the suing of Lifelock, the much-heralded identity-theft protection company.
“While LifeLock promised consumers complete protection against all types of identity theft, in truth, the protection it actually provided left enough holes that you could drive a truck through it,” said Jon Leibowitz, the FTC chairman.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, one of the state attorneys general involved, was also highly critical of LifeLock.
“This agreement effectively prevents LifeLock from misrepresenting that its services offer absolute prevention against identity theft because there is unfortunately no foolproof way to avoid ID theft,” she said. [emphasis mine]
You’d better believe there isn’t any “foolproof way to avoid ID theft”! That’s because bureaucrats and businesses and banks go OUT OF THEIR WAY to invite it. Like plastered our Social Security numbers all over our tax forms?! Or allowing banks and even shoe stores and grocery stores to collect our identifying information for their reward card, which is then harvested in data banks, for any laptop-stealing thug to sift through! Hello?! How about forcing banks and cedit card companies to use better password encryption and etc for their online banking websites, huh? My online Photobucket account is more secure than my online credit card account!
Identity theft is completely avoidable!!! But the government has no intention of stopping it! Just like they have no intention of curing cancer, because that would put the medical industry out of business! Just like they have no intention of stopping the dumping of corn syrup into our foods, to stave the explosion of obesity and diabetes in this country since the 70s, because the corn industry is heavily regulated and pads a lot of pockets. Sheesh!
Oh, if only the FTC and other government bureaucrats would spend more time and energy fighting the battles that REALLY mattered, such as protecting our identity and cleaning their own houses full of corruption, lies, false advertising, and identity theft!
And how about they go after some of the real snake oil sellers out there– yeah, the companies who advertise that drinking their soda quenches your thirst, or that taking their diet pill makes you as skinny as an Ethiopian! How about dem apples?
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