The Evolution of Identity Crime and Its Impacts

In today’s information ecosystems, identity goes beyond the simplistic factors of name, date of birth, and other baseline data points. There are as many data points to identify a person as there are ways to catalog identifying data. Thirteen years ago, we wouldn’t have considered biometrics—facial recognition, fingerprints, voice, etc.—a data point of personally identifiable information (PII). Today, it is as mainstream as artificial intelligence assistants such as Siri and Alexa. As a result, identity crime has evolved.