[…] the Red Flags Rule ..[…] .. Sometimes it’s referred to as one of the Fair Credit Reporting Act’s Identity Theft Rules and it appears in the Code of Federal Regulations as “Detection, Prevention, and Mitigation of Identity Theft.”) The Red Flags Rule requires many businesses and organizations to implement a written Identity Theft Prevention Program designed to detect the warning signs – or red flags – of identity theft in their day-to-day operations. link

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