Identity crime : The challenges in the regulation of identity crime
- Authors: Holm, Eric
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings
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- Description: This paper discusses the unique challenges of regulating identity crime. Identity crime involves the use of personal identification information to perpetrate crimes of fraud. As such, the identity crime involves using personal and private information to perpetrate crime. This article considers the two significant issues that obstruct responses to this crime; firstly, the reporting of crime. Secondly the paper considers the issue of jurisdiction. Finally, the paper explores some responses to this crime. The paper then explores some of the current responses to identity crime. © 2012 IEEE.
The importance of mandatory data breach notification to identity crime
- Authors: Holm, Eric , Mackenzie, Geraldine
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings
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- Description: The relationship between data breaches and identity crime has been scarcely explored in current literature. However, there is an important relationship between the misuse of personal identification information and identity crime as the former is in many respects the catalyst for the latter. Data breaches are one of the ways in which this personal identification information is obtained by identity criminals, and thereby any response to data breaches is likely to impact the incidence of identity crime. Initiatives around data breach notification have become increasingly prevalent and are now seen in many State legislatures in the United States and overseas. The Australian Government is currently in the process of introducing mandatory data breach notification laws. This paper explores the introduction of mandatory data breach notification in Australia, and lessons learned from the experience in the US, particularly noting the link between data breaches and identity crime. The paper proposes that through the introduction of such laws, identity crimes are likely to be reduced.