Posted on 07/21/2015 11:19:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, the FTC charged that LifeLock failed to live up to its obligations under the 2010 settlement, and asked the court to impose an order requiring LifeLock to provide full redress to all consumers affected by the company’s order violations.
“It is essential that companies live up to their obligations under orders obtained by the FTC,” said Jessica Rich, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “If a company continues with practices that violate orders and harm consumers, we will act.”
The 2010 settlement stemmed from previous FTC allegations that LifeLock used false claims to promote its identity theft protection services. The settlement barred the company and its principals from making any further deceptive claims; required LifeLock to take more stringent measures to safeguard the personal information it collects from customers; and required LifeLock to pay $12 million for consumer refunds.
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CRASH!!!!
Don’t they/didn’t they sponsor Rush?
Yup!
Yes.
I guess as Rush would say: “Interesting, hmmmmmmmmmmmm?”
Why is Obama going after Lifelock? The timing is suspicious, considering the government’s recent breach of personal data.
Who will go after the government?
Yes they do.
Whitehouse retrobution against one of conservative talk radio’s biggest advertisers, especially RUSH!!!
I have Life Lock.
Me too and have had it ever since I found out the incompetent political hacks at OPM allowed all my most personal information to be taken by the Chinese - and the stupid scum even paid the Chinese to do it.
I'm not alone. Now what am I going to do (besides get ruined and robbed blind)? I know there are other companies who offer this service, but are they any better or is it hopeless to take precautions?
My son urged me to sign up..We just upgraded to premium..I feel better having it although it is no absolute guarantee.
.I hate you had this happen. From what I read you have a lot of ccompany.
Step #1 is to freeze your credit files. Once you've done this, whatever additional protection credit monitoring provides is questionable.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/can-you-trust-lifelock,news-21372.html
Found this and thought it was informative.
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