On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:38:41 -0800, Saundra Kae Rubel
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>Hi
>
>I was at the Securing Privacy in the Internet Age Conference at Stanford
>Law over the weekend and someone asked what the prevalence of identity
>theft was in European countries.
>
>In the US, the statistics are staggering, however, we have different credit
>policies which might account for the rampant numbers of theft.
>
>Does the data protection legislation in Europe help to alleviate and or
>minimize identity theft?
>What is the identity theft situation in the UK?
>
>Thanks for your answers
>
>Saundra
>
>
>
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See: http://europa.eu.int/eur-
lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2004/ce058/ce05820040306en00050006.pdf
For an answer that was given in the EU last year.
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