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Article: Calls grow for crackdown on data thieves.(192.com Ltd.'s services for managing personal data)
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- Computing
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- January 18, 2007
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Byline: Tom Young
Calls grow for crackdown on data thieves
Penalties fail to outweigh the ease with which information can be obtained, reports Tom Young
z The latest advertising campaign by directory service 192.com offers to find details on any member of the public, highlighting the increasingly widespread availability of personal data.
Pitched under the Anyone, Any place or Any business slogan, 192.com's entirely legal service trawls sources such as electoral registers, census records, the Land Registry database, and mobile phone user locations.
But identity theft is still on the rise -- UK fraud prevention service Cifas ...