LifeLock is a popular American identity theft protection company now owned by Symantec.
The service combines multiple techniques and technologies to keep you safe. It looks out for your identity being used to obtain loans, credit and services. It checks court and criminal records to warn you of others using your name. Change of address records are monitored, detecting attempts to redirect your mail, and the service is always scanning the dark web for any sign of your personal or financial details.
Mobile apps and near real-time alerts keep you in touch with what’s going on. If LifeLock detects an auto loan application in your name, for instance, you’ll get a notification asking if this was a legitimate request. Say no and the LifeLock support team will investigate.
LifeLock isn’t another me-too company using a standard data feed to access this information. It’s coming from Symantec’s own ID Analytics network, a comprehensive data consortium which takes input from multiple lending, service and other industries, and now receives more than 100 million new identity elements every day (read more about it here).
If you’ve been hit by fraud, LifeLock’s team of ID …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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