April
17,
2007
Chris Jay Hoofnagle, senior attorney to the Samuelson Clinic, argued in the San Francisco Chronicle that in order to fight identity theft, policy makers need better data on the crime. Specifically, Hoofnagle argued that banks should be required to report statistics to the public on the prevalence and severity of identity theft incidents. Currently, the publicly-available data on the crime are drawn from victim surveys, and cannot capture nuanced fraud trends. read more »
