An Identity You Could Own

Each year 10 million Americans become victims of all sorts of identity related crimes and to date law enforcement has failed to combat what has become this nation's worst crime wave. 


The title of this book suggests you don’t own the information that recognizes you in today’s digital world.  This critical information describes your financial status, your medical status, and your physical status in terms of where you live, where you work, and in many cases provides a chronicle of your life style.  You have no control over this information and when it ends up in the wrong hands it causes grave harm to the millions who fall victim to all sorts of identity related crime every year.


You may be a recent victim of identity theft and hope this book shows how you can protect yourself from identity thieves who will likely attack you again.  Or you may be like the rest of us who are frightened at the prospect of becoming a victim.  You may also be someone who is paying for what is purported to be identity theft protection believing these products actually offer protection from identity thieves.  All these products can do is tell you once you have become a victim which means our only choice is to wait around until it is our turn to become an identity theft victim.

 

It is time for a new solution and the solution that will work is one that gives each of us the means to assemble our identity documents from official sources and offer controlled views of these documents when and wherever our identity needs to be verified.  We can do this through the use of an Identity Bank that assists us in the gathering and authenticating of our identity information.  This gives us a definitive identity source that will prevent an identity thief from using fake identity documents to masquerade as us and steal from us. 


We don’t have to wait around to be the next identity theft victim.  Instead we can build this solution and solve this nation’s worst crime and save hundreds of billions of dollars each year.  This solution is the prevailing topic of this book An Identity You Could Own.