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But will an identification theft-protection service really do any good after a breach like this? First, the irony. Equifax is promising to guard shoppers when it simply proved incapable of protecting customers. To make it worse, you could have at hand over all your personal information (again) to enroll in TrustedID Premier, and a few consultants are questioning the safety of the very web site Equifax has set up to address the problem. Security guide and creator Adam Shostack thinks that we absolutely should not trust Equifax. In truth, he is petitioned the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to pressure companies with information breaches give shoppers a voucher for $50 or $one hundred to allow them to choose their own monitoring service, not just the service that "Equifax is foisting on individuals," says Shostack. Then there's the bigger question of whether or not any of these fraud-monitoring companies, TrustedID or in any other case, actually protect consumers. Avivah Lita