{"id":9673,"date":"2012-01-04T17:22:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/positive_lifelock_experience.html"},"modified":"2012-01-04T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:22:47","slug":"positive-lifelock-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/positive-lifelock-experience.html","title":{"rendered":"Positive LifeLock Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being on the front lines of tech and communications news I am aware of so many data breaches that identity theft scares me. As a result I subscribed to LifeLock over&nbsp; a year ago and have questioned the investment a few times as they really don&#8217;t provide a service I see.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told I do recall the system alerting me to a bunch of sex offenders who have moved into my city and\/or the surrounding area. Another part of the service they provide.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m never quite sure what to do with this information though. I suppose you don&#8217;t want to hire any of the people on the list as a babysitter so that is one way in which this information could be useful.<\/p>\n<p>Well today my bank convinced me I needed one of their shiny new credit cards and I relented. While filling out the application on the computer I received an email on my phone from LifeLock alerting me to the new credit card application. I logged onto the system and they showed me the alert.<\/p>\n<p>I then received a call a few hours later letting me know I should log in and approve the alert if it is legitimate. I didn&#8217;t know I was supposed to do that but I just did.<\/p>\n<p>Like many others I became alarmed after the company was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/2010-05-13\/news\/cracking-life-lock-even-after-a-12-million-penalty-for-deceptive-advertising-the-tempe-company-can-t-be-honest-about-its-identity-theft-protection-service\/\">fined<\/a> for deceptive marketing practices but at least now that LifeLock has shown me what happens when a credit card is opened using my information I can relax &#8211; it seems the company&#8217;s service does work as advertised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being on the front lines of tech and communications news I am aware of so many data breaches that identity theft scares me. As a result I subscribed to LifeLock over&nbsp; a year ago and have questioned the investment a few times as they really don&#8217;t provide a service I see. Truth be told I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}