On a related note, I've recently had two UK banks request more personal documents from me, and a video, for anti-fraud or anti-laundering, blah, blah reasons.

On a related note, I've recently had two UK banks request more personal documents from me, and a video, for anti-fraud or anti-laundering, blah, blah reasons. When, not if, they get hacked, the intruders will have even greater ability to abuse my identity. Data protection acts are barking up the wrong tree - what we need are data limitation acts to require corporations to store as little data as possible.