The Top Five Posts from Identity Resolution Daily

Looking back at the topics that attracted the most readers, we noticed an interesting trend — three of the top five were about retail fraud and loss prevention. When we look at the top 20, however, the debate over privacy versus security is equally as popular as our retail-centric posts.

If you missed any of them, here are top five most popular below in reverse order:

5. Knowledge Center: Jeff Stein on Loss Prevention – Then vs. Now

For internal investigations we used look out perches, integrity shoppers and covert CCTV (B&W pin hole cameras) rigged in a hole or speaker grill that we put in one of the drop down ceiling tiles when we could. Another covert mission would be for one of us to climb into the ceiling before the store opened and… (more)

4. How to stop retail theft and fraud

Unfortunately, the more sophisticated shoplifters—especially those who belong to organized retail crime (ORC) rings—can’t be easily ID’d by their NASCAR t-shirts. The ORCs move from city to city, changing their identities as they go, and to catch these criminals loss prevention professionals must have the ability to… (more)

3. Why don’t MySpace and Facebook have better identity screening?

Sometimes being secure on social networks is easy. It’s easy enough to figure out that the unintelligible friend-request from “younghottie1234″ on MySpace is probably a threat. However, as cyber-criminals grow consistently better at manipulating identity, some questions about social networks’ identity screening process demand answers. Specifically, why don’t social networks like MySpace and Facebook utilize more effective identity screening solutions… (more)

2. Privacy vs Security: A Global Debate Works Toward Balance

In the US, the debate between personal privacy (and perhaps liberties in general) versus security is a long-standing one with roots in the very founding of the nation itself. Folks interested in obtaining data often wonder how much people are willing to give up in the name of greater security or convenience. On the other hand, those more focussed on privacy worry about how… (more)

And the number one most popular post is…

1. Employees are walking out the front door with retailers’ profits

What’s one percent off the top-line to a retailer? If you’re Wal-Mart (and so few of us are), 1% is somewhere in the neighborhood of $3 billion, and it turns out that’s around what the retail supergiant will lose this year as a result of shoplifting and – increasingly – employee fraud. Wal-Mart is notoriously secretive about their losses, but recent analysis suggests that the $3 billion mark is accurate and… (more)