News Stories that Profile Individuals who Contacted the PRC
[ceased as of 2006]

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2005

• Christian Science Monitor: Who is Checking the Background Checkers?, interview with John McDonald, criminal identity theft victim (11.28.05)

• Dallas Morning News: Employers Must Protect Workers' Identities, interview with Mark DeLaVega, SSN exposed as employee of MCI (08.14.05)
  
  
• NBC Nightly News: ID Theft Epidemic, interview with Dave Derby, security breach victim (05.10.05)
  
  
• NBC Nightly News: Credit Freezes Could Stop Identity Theft, interview with Barbara Haviluk, identity theft victim who has a security freeze on her credit report (04.25.05)
  
  
• Press Enterprise: Insecurity Blanket, interview with Lisa Martin, license issued to identity thief (03.27.05) **
  
  
• NY Times: Purloined Lives, interview with Mary Chapman and Brent James, identity theft victims (03.17.05) **
  
  
• Wired News: Bad Data Fouls Background Checks, interview with Ken Schustereit and Ron Peterson, errors in background check reports (03.11.05)
  
  
• LA Times: Industry at Odds Over ID Theft Liability, interview with Heidi Anderson, identity theft victim (03.07.05) **
  
  
• Fox News: ID Theft Passports Help Victims Recover, interview with Elizabeth Price, criminal identity theft victim (03.04.05)
  
  
• CBS Evening News: An Identity Theft Nightmare, interview with John Harrison, identity theft victim (02.25.05)

2004

• CBS Evening News: ID Firm's Security Gaffe, interview with Ronald Peterson, inaccurate background check with ChoicePoint (02.24.04)
  
  
• New York Times News Service: Retailers Crack Down on Returns, interview with Tina Orkin, return declined by Express (12.28.04)

• San Francisco Chronicle: ACLU Sues to Scrap Prop. 69 and Its DNA Databank, notes Rodney Ware, victim of criminal identity theft (12.08.04)
  
  
• MSNBC: Free Credit Reports May Reveal Surprises, interview with Sylvia Gallow-Vazquez, identity theft victim (12.01.04)
  

• KXTV: Identity Theft Victim Goes to Court to Clear His Name, interview with Rodney Ware, victim of criminal identity theft (11.22.04)
  
  
• Money Magazine: Anatomy of an ID Theft, Interview with Heather Harding, identity theft victim (11.18.04)
  
  
• Washington Post: Some Shoppers Find Fewer Happy Returns, interview with Shelli Isiminger regarding errors with The Work Number (11.07.04)

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