The public believes that ID cards are the best solution to identity theft and fraud, according to a survey published this week. More than half of those polled (57%) said ID cards were their first or second preferred method to protect themselves against identity theft, the survey of 1,000 people aged 16 to 64 showed. But George Platt, general manager of US voice automation firm Intervoice, which commissioned the UK survey, warned that ID cards would “do nothing
“It's a step in the right direction but it’s a multifaceted problem that just an ID card won’t solve,

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