Detecting Identity Theft

According to my reading the government has not done enough to detect all identity theft and have yet to be able to deter the crime of identity theft. One of the reasons the government has been unable to detect all identity theft is because not everyone knows their identity has been taken until they are going to obtain credit, they get a call from a creditor, or they get a call asking if they have authorized a charge on their card. Another problem in detecting identity theft is that a person might not be alive when their identity was stolen and this could go unnoticed for many years. Plus if the victim is a child they might not know about the theft of their identity until they have reached adulthood and they try to get credit in their name. As for being able to deter identity theft that will take more work than is currently being done. This is because identity theft is a very easy thing to commit due to it being able to be done on the computer and the chance of getting caught is very small. When a person is able to take another person’s identity then it is likely they will be able to take another one with just as much ease so when one identity is used up then they move on to the next person’s …show more content…
Also with technology there are now devices that can read a person’s credit card information which can be transmitted electronically. By using a device like this if you are very careful planting it and making sure you don’t leave physical evidence could go unnoticed for a long period of time. Plus it provides the thief with multiple identities of which they can assume without having to revisit where the device is