John Conyers: “this question of the well-being of our Nation's children is a result of the fact that children have increasingly become…”

“this question of the well-being of our Nation's children is a result of the fact that children have increasingly become targets for identity theft. There have been sharp rises in incidents of fraud involving children's Social Security numbers which have been documented. Crimes using the stolen data are typically credit card frauds or the issuance of fraudulent driver's licenses. However, it is not too farfetched to think that the misappropriations of the personally identifiable information of a person who has not attained the age of 18 could be used in a way that could bring about many of the offenses set forth in this Act. {time} 1415 So the objective of the amendment crafted by the gentlewoman from Texas is to protect our children at all costs, and this amendment would do this by making it a crime to knowingly misappropriate the personal identification information of a minor in interstate or foreign commerce. The offense would be punishable by fines or imprisonment not to exceed 10 years. Identity thieves often target children for these type of crimes because they are much less likely to notice that someone else is using their identity.”