Thursday, June 23, 2005

Three cheers for ID cards!!

One of the main reasons given for introducing National Identity cards is to reduce identity theft. How would ID cards prevent the bank account details of 1,000 customers being stolen by an Indian call centre worker? The details included account holders' secret passwords, addresses, phone numbers, passport details and presumably ID card data had this occurred beyond 2014.

If your bank account is drained of cash following such a fraud, how do you prove it was the bank's fault and not your personal negligence?

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