People first
Judge policy by how it protects people and supports a fair, navigable path to recovery.
About the Institute
Identity safety is a matter of public trust.
The American Institute for Identity Safety is developing a nonpartisan policy agenda that puts victim restoration at the center of identity safety.
Our mission
Protect the person.
Restore their future.
Our mission is to advance public policy, national identity security, and scam protection, with particular attention to children, older adults, and other vulnerable populations.
Identity connects people to opportunity, services, relationships, and public life. When it is misused, the response should help people regain control.
Public policy leads our launch, beginning with proposed reforms to victim restoration. Our broader mission connects that work to national identity security and scam protection. Deepfake impersonation, the authority of AI agents, and accountable uses of AI cut across the mission.
Our approach
A common purpose.
A practical conversation.
Nonpartisan by design
Focus on the public interest and constructive policy ideas across political perspectives.
Trust with accountability
Consider privacy, accessibility, and meaningful ways to challenge errors alongside security.
The organization
Built around
a public purpose.
The American Institute for Identity Safety, Inc. is a California nonprofit corporation.
This website introduces AIIS’s mission and proposed policy directions. We welcome conversations with policymakers, researchers, advocates, and organizations interested in advancing identity safety.
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Our founder
Eric Haller
Founder, American Institute for Identity Safety
Eric Haller brings more than 30 years of leadership experience in identity, fraud prevention, AI, and analytics. He oversaw global identity and fraud businesses at Experian and TransUnion, created and led Experian DataLabs, and served as TransUnion’s Chief Data and Analytics Officer. Earlier, he co-founded an identity-fraud detection company that became ID Analytics and was an executive at a company that pioneered neural-network credit-card fraud detection.
He is named on 13 issued U.S. patents, including as primary inventor of multi-bureau credit-file freeze and unfreeze technology, and has written for Harvard Business Review. His DataLabs work has been featured in Mapping Innovation and Own the A.I. Revolution.
He is a Fellow of Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative and formerly served on the Board of Overseers of Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies. He holds an M.S. in Technology Management from Columbia University and a B.S. in Finance from San Diego State University.
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