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Alice Bryant is the Editor of Creditnet and a personal finance expert with over a decade of experience writing about credit cards, credit scores, debt repair, and more.

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Recent Blogs

Is Google the Future of Credit Reporting Agencies?

The Internet is a beast with a long memory. Sometimes the photos and personal information it retains creates a one-sided and unfair impression of an individual, and sometimes the information about the person is just plain wrong. No one can ever assure themselves that this information will not come back to haunt them in any future credit granting decision. To this end, more and more people are making a claim that they have certain rights to privacy that the Internet presently ignores. These rights they say extend to personal information that is normally found in or derived from credit reporting agencies.

How to Protect Your Child from Identity Theft

Unfortunately, having your identity stolen as a child typically makes things difficult for a young adult. For example, they'll likely experience issues when applying for loans for colleges. Employers and landlords often take a look at credit reports. Therefore, it is important to be aware of this problem, so you can take the appropriate measures to protect your child from identity theft.

Turning Off Your Credit Cards: How New Technology Will Help Stop Fraud

A great answer to preventing fraudulent use of credit cards is here. Many of us have been victimized in some form with credit fraud, especially if you shopped at Target or one of the other companies involved in the December 2013 credit card fraud. Even if you don’t lose money, it is very inconvenient  to obtain new credit cards. Plus, the identity theft will have access to your personal information. They can use this to open new accounts in your name and easily damage your credit score.

Cash vs Credit: Which Should You Carry?

To generate money, one must know how to spend money. Among the most common forms of spending in the 21st century includes cash and credit cards. Both come with unique advantages and disadvantages, but that doesn't necessarily mean one mode is more dominant than the other. It is true that the plastic card is slowly replacing the greenback in many areas of consumer culture. But how could something as old as history of civilization itself suddenly fall to a recent innovation?
 

Credit Tips for Recent College Grads

Completing college and beginning a career is a heady experience. It is also a time when many people begin the process of building solid credit histories and ratings. Starting off on the right foot will make it easier to build financial security in the years ahead, and always have access to credit when it is needed for major purchases. Here are some tips that will help achieve this goal of financial stability. 

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