Hoofnagle: Penalties Alone Won't Reduce Identity Theft

Chris Hoofnagle, counsel to the Electronic Privacy Information Center, blogs that police are overwhelmed with complaints about identity theft and are only able to solve a minute fraction of the cases. Increased penalties, which are often espoused by legislators, are not having any effect on the prevalence of this sort of fraud. See: EPIC West: Penalties Alone Won't Reduce Identity Theft.