A BETTER WAY! Before we give a link to the Home Office mini-site, which has some quite useful advice, please have a look at some BBC Online articles. It is wrong to hype ID cards as a solution - if they can be forged, they'll actually give a false sense of security. Much of the answer may lie in good security practices, such as using a shredder before throwing out sensitive documents. The BCS offers basic guidance on safeguarding IT facilities. Also, Companies House have introduced more secure procedures for processing notifications of changes in company details. BBC: Technology to beat document forgeries BBC: Better data sharing between government agencies and the public sector will also help defeat fraudsters, according to criminologist Professor Martin Gill. National ID fraud prevention website. Very readable. Home Office: ID theft mini-site |