Local planning authorities are giving identity criminals “all they need” by posting applicants’ personal details online, according to the UK’s fraud prevention service Cifas

The organisation said planning authorities were publishing applicants’ personal details, including names addresses, telephone and signatures, on the web as part of their planning consultations.

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What more can be said?

The NIR setup will have the same flaw – a fraudster (or their agent) will be able to access personal details across a network, just replace signatures for ‘unchangeable biometric information’ and it there you have it, a recipe for disaster.

The ONLY insurance is not to register on the NIR, neither intentionally nor through renewal of linked documents (i.e. your passport) after the next couple of months.

This entry was posted on Monday, June 5th, 2006 at 10:41 am and is filed under NIR.