I too had my identity stolen and had the hassle of cleaning my credit history. But that's a separate problem. The problem wasn't my privacy, the problem was th

I too had my identity stolen and had the hassle of cleaning my credit history. But that's a separate problem. The problem wasn't my privacy, the problem was that I moved out of an address, some junk mail came for me after I'd left, and so the new resident used my name to run up some bills. You can steal identities by simply knowing a name and an address such is the broken credit check system. That's not proving that things need to be stored and secured better. It's showing that credit agencies need to actually use some common sense. (In my case the fraudulent entries didn't even match my date of birth).