Re: "offering every US citizen a year's free identity theft monitoring for those who apply"
"give them a bunch more personal information that they can abuse and/or loose"
They've already lost all the information you might be asked to give them.
I'm in the UK and I've recently checked my scores from the three agencies, Equifax, Experian and CallCredit. Didn't need to give them anything they didn't already know, it was simply used to validate that I was who I claimed to be. I know this because I found two sets of partial records that as a whole pretty much cover my identity, all down to the Electoral Roll using a different address format from the Postcode Address File.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
