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Thank you so much for your presence tonight. We get a little crazy and love to have fun while telling the truth.

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Happy Holidays And All The Best In The New Year!

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Just stopped by to wish you a Happy Holiday and a New Year full of much success! This week on Mrs. Success show we shall bring in the holiday with music and stores... Please join us as you prepare for the holiday. Thursday 12-24-09 @ 11pm EST 646-200-0160.

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Really Informative Show. enjoyed It. Keep it Up.

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US Privacy Associates was created by police officers. The process, used by federal, state and local police agencies is used to remove personal information from popular search engine websites to protect officers, their families and now is made available to the public!

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    Lifelock to pay 12 million to settle complaints

    For years, consumer advocates have accused LifeLock Inc. of overstepping its boundaries in guaranteeing the effectiveness of its identity-theft protection services.

    Now, the country's top consumer watchdog has weighed in, saying the Tempe-based company preyed on consumers' identity-theft fears to sell products that didn't fully deliver on LifeLock's promise.

    The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday said LifeLock will pay $12 million to settle a complaint alleging the company falsely advertised its $10-per-month service to consumers.

    LifeLock CEO Todd Davis, who has generated controversy by giving out his Social Security number in advertisements, said the settlement likely won't have much of an impact on the business because it already altered much of its advertising and practices in the past year.

    He also rejected the claim that the company misled its customers.

    "We've always said that no one can stop identity theft," Davis said.

    The issue highlights the anxiety that ID theft has created among consumers, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said during a news conference in Chicago.

    "Unfortunately, there is nothing that you can do or purchase that will provide you with a 100 percent guarantee against being a victim of identity theft," said Madigan, who helped the FTC with its investigation of LifeLock. "Don't be scared into spending your hard-earned money." Identity theft is the top type of complaint received by the FTC annually, agency Chairman Jon Leibowitz said. In 2009, 21 percent, or 278,078, of consumer complaints the agency received were related to ID theft.

    LifeLock's settlement consists of an $11 million payment to the FTC and a $1 million payment to the attorneys general of 35 states, including Arizona.

    It is the largest joint FTC-multistate settlement concerning privacy and identity theft in history, Madigan said.

    The company already paid the money into an escrow account, said Clarissa Cerda, LifeLock's general counsel.

    The FTC will use the $11 million to provide refunds to consumers. It will send letters to current and former LifeLock customers who are eligible for the settlement. The $1 million will be used to cover states' investigation costs. The size of the individual refunds has not been determined.

    The settlement prohibits the company and its principals from making deceptive claims and requires them to take more stringent measures to safeguard customers' personal data.

    In a complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, the FTC alleged that LifeLock's advertising misled consumers by indicating it prevented all types of ID theft.

    The FTC's investigation into the company's practices began several years ago, Davis said. He said that the company cooperated with the agency and the states included in the settlement and that it has worked to change its advertising to ensure its accuracy.

    The Washington, D.C., agency's investigation of the company focused on advertising and practices from 2005 through part of 2009, the complaint says.

    The settlement does not mean LifeLock has admitted breaking the law, the FTC said.

    Critics have accused Davis of being cavalier about the company's ability to thwart ID theft and fraud, zeroing in on the ads in which he lists his Social Security number on the side of a truck to show his confidence in LifeLock's services.

    "We challenged LifeLock's practices because they promised protection they didn't deliver," Leibowitz said during the news conference Tuesday, adding that the company's service cannot prevent the misuse of existing credit cards and bank accounts or the ability to obtain medical care using another person's identity.

    He also blasted LifeLock for having lax controls for protecting personal data it collected from customers. "Its data security suffered from severe vulnerabilities that are unacceptable for any company that collects personal information from consumers," he said.

    The data was not encrypted, which would help prevent outsiders from accessing it, and the information was not shared only on a "need to know" basis, according to an FTC announcement.

    LifeLock is one of Arizona's fastest-growing startups, garnering more than 1.5 million customers since it formed in 2005, according to Davis.

    Its financial backers include Goldman Sachs & Co. and security-software giant Symantec Corp., which contributed financing toward $40 million in new investment LifeLock landed in May.

    Some analysts speculate the private company will go public this year.

    The FTC settlement is the second major settlement for LifeLock in the past year.

    In October, it settled a lawsuit by credit bureau Experian in U.S. District Court in California.

    Experian claimed LifeLock engaged in unfair business practices by constantly signing up customers for fraud alerts with the credit bureaus. Typically, consumers file a fraud alert with a credit bureau when they believe someone has misused their personal data, such as stealing their credit-card information.

    A fraud alert, which can be renewed every 90 days, requires a company to verify a person's identity before extending credit to the individual.

    Experian argued federal law allows only individual consumers, not third parties such as LifeLock, to set fraud alerts for themselves.

    Under the settlement, the amount of which has never been disclosed, LifeLock agreed to stop setting fraud alerts, which was key to its $10-per-month service.

    Davis said the company has changed much of its practices and advertising since the FTC initiated its investigation.

    "We've been working with them literally for years, and they were concerned about some of our early practices," he said. "We are glad to get it behind us so we can stay focused" on the business.

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    FTC Issues Report of 2009 Top Consumer Complaints

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    The Federal Trade Commission today released a report listing top complaints consumers filed with the agency in 2009. It shows that while identity theft remains the top complaint category, identity theft complaints declined 5 percentage points from 2008.

    The report breaks out complaint data on a state-by-state basis and also contains data about the 50 metropolitan areas reporting the highest per capita incidence of fraud and other complaints. In addition, the 50 metropolitan areas reporting the highest incidence of identity theft are noted.

    The top complaints were:

    Rank Category No. of Complaints Percentages
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    Identity Theft 278,078 21%
    2
    Third Party and Creditor Debt Collection 119,549 9%
    3
    Internet Services 83,067 6%
    4
    Shop-at-Home and Catalog Sales 74,581 6%
    5
    Foreign Money Offers and Counterfeit Check Scams 61,736 5%
    6
    Internet Auction 57,821 4%
    7
    Credit Cards 45,203 3%
    8
    Prizes, Sweepstakes and Lotteries 41,763 3%
    9
    Advance-Fee Loans and Credit Protection/Repair 41,448 3%
    10
    Banks and Lenders 32,443 2%
    11
    Credit Bureaus, Information Furnishers and Report Users 31,629 2%
    12
    Television and Electronic Media 26,568 2%
    13
    Health Care 25,414 2%
    14
    Business Opportunities, Employment Agencies and Work-at-Home Plans 22,896 2%
    15
    Computer Equipment and Software 22,621 2%

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    Kids Come First

    Kids Come First is dedicated to informing the general public of the various tactics and methods being used by predators to manipulate and lure children. The Internet is just one of the ways a predator will make contact. Too many children, through no fault of their own, are falling victim to online predators and many have to live their lives as survivors, at least those who still have that option. Some unfortunately are no longer with us. Our main objective is to supply the resources needed to better protect our youth and remain informed of the threats facing our kids. It is our responsibility to educate our young today in order to ensure their future. We hope that our ongoing efforts through our seminar program and continual support of Law Enforcement will encourage a greater awareness to this enormous problem. Please join us in the fight to make Kids Come First!

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    Anny Jacoby-Realistic Female Self-Defense

    Anny Jacoby, Owner/President of The Realistic Female Self-Defense Company is a survivor of domestic violence and passionately campaigns that EVERY female to have the absolute right to protect and defend herself. Anny's program is not traditional "self-defense" nor martial arts or weapons. She has developed her training specifically for females and teaches them to use their minds to detect and diffuse, and their bodies as weapons to defend themselves in the event of an altercation. Anny’s style is serious, with compassion and empathy, yet fun and empowering. Her training classes and seminars leave her students with a sense of confidence and an understanding of their intuitions regarding safety. Anny has authored a comprehensive training manual for each student to take with them as reference. Anny and her team of male instructors are Certified PDR (Personal Defense Readiness) Instructors. For training options and rates (group and private): Phone: 919-225-1421 info@realisticfemaleselfdefense.com anny@annyjacoby.com

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