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The Independent View: Keep your good name safe – lock the fraudsters out

By Phil Booth | Tue 21st October 2008 - 11:30 am

In this time of great financial uncertainty, Nick Clegg’s endorsement of ‘credit freezes’ for all – the ability for individuals to lock and unlock their own credit records – last week in Cambridge may not have received much media coverage. It should have.

NO2ID believes that giving people meaningful control over their own personal information is a truly radical and significant policy. It could, if broadly and properly applied, begin to carve out a genuine alternative to the database state. And in the immediate future it could also prevent a great deal of fraud at zero cost to the …

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