says freezing your child's credit can prevent new accounts from being opened in your child's name.
If you're looking for other ways to protect your child's identity, there are paid identity protection services you can subscribe to. "They'll look for suspicious activity that hides the child's credit or uses their information to open a loan," said Kitten."But they'll also look at the dark web to see if personally identifiable information linked to that child is for sale, such as the date of birth or a social security number. They'll also monitor social media."
Keeping a child's personal information safe is the best way to protect them, because the Javelin survey found more than 70% of child ID fraud cases are perpetrated by someone who knows the child directly. Kitten says it's also important to talk to your children about the information they share online, because they could help someone steal their identity without realizing it. Parents should be careful with sharing too much information online about their children, which could be used to steal their identity.