Identity cards may actually increase identity theft despite ‘new technology’

http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?section=business&id=2536

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“In a damning blow to the UK government’s love affair with identity cards, a British criminologist has warned that the new technology could actually increase, rather than solve, the problem of identity theft and fraud.”

Update 2022: Unlike ID cards Identity theft didn’t disappear but got worse