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Deborah Platt Majoras, chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since 2004 and a champion of identity theft protection for consumers, announced Thursday that she plans to leave her post in late March. A White House-sanctioned commission on identity theft backed the creation of a national breach notification law this week. The US federal agency responsible for consumer protection is planning a public workshop to discuss authentication and soon hopes to draft a civil rule requiring companies to spot warning signs of identity theft, its leader said Wednesday. Sony BMG Entertainment has settled with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over charges the entertainment giant violated federal law when it surreptitiously installed digital rights management software on CDs last year. ChoicePoint has agreed to pay $10 million in fines, the largest civil penalty ever imposed by the Federal Trade Commission, and $5 million in consumer compensation, to settle charges that the data broker’s record-handling procedures violated consumers’ privacy rights. “The message to ChoicePoint and others should be clear: Consumers’ private data must be protected from thieves,” said Deborah Platt Majoras, chairwoman of the FTC. The company admitted last year that a data breach compromised the personal information of at least 163,000 customers, with 800 becoming identity theft victims, the FTC said. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an identity theft education campaign to coincide with President Bush’s creation of a task force designed to tackle America’s fastest growing crime. A Kansas real estate services provider has settled Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that it violated security claims made to customers, the agency announced today in a statement. The federal government has found an entertaining way to teach consumers about online fraud. The newly formed Anti-Spyware Coalition held its first public workshop earlier this month as a way to bring together key players to discuss malicious software, the Cyber Security Industry Alliance said in its February newsletter. Online incidents accounted for nearly half of all consumer fraud complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2005, the agency said in a report released this week. ChoicePoint has agreed to pay $15 million in fines and consumer redress to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its record-handling procedures violated consumers’ privacy rights and federal laws, the agency announced today. Nearly 25 percent of PC users are targeted by monthly phishing attempts, according to a national online safety study. Animal rights protesters have launched denial of service (DoS) attacks against several companies that work in the fur trade.