Five years jail for ID theft

Posted on April 24th, 2007 at 12:00 am to Australian IT by Australian IT Staff
DISHONEST use of identity information will become a crime under new laws, with penalties of up to five years jail for a range of offences including on-selling personal data.  Full story »

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