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Originally posted by rcecale
Make the penalty more severe, and I mean EXTREMELY more severe, and you'll have the beginning of the end of Identity Theft.
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Like drunk driving; 10 years from now, we'll be passing around tales about someone getting arrested for having someone's credit report in the trunk of their car.
We need more penalties for the perpetrators, but we also need to share some of the risk with the data aggregators, which will probably require a shift in their business model. The most recent publicised 'theft' of data wasn't even really a theft - the 'thieves'
bought the data, posing as a legit customer.