My opinion, for preventing ID theft, is – step 1 – to research and deal with the roots of the problems caused by it; rather than – step 2 – trying to make everyone aware on how to protect his or her ID. For example, if a system administrator effectively maintained the security of an enterprise server, we wouldn’t have a security breach and thousands of credit card details and personal info would be safe!

The responsibility resides to the individual’s level of awareness of personal security. People must become more vigilant on how to protect their personal information when using technology.

In my view, as a government or an enterprise, we have to make sure that all of our civilians or employees achieve a higher level of awareness of personal security.

In UK there are many initiatives that have been set up to face ID theft. Obviously this means that the situation is getting worse and people need to be aware! For this reason the government promotes a yearly campaign aimed to spread out complete information on how to avoid, and eventually expose, ID frauds – www.stop-idfraud.co.uk.

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