Personal Details

Below are our 20 articles in the 'personal details' category:

ATM Skimming: Copying your Details
In recent times the issue of identity theft has become something that many people are talking about and many people are finding that they have been subject to.

Of course identity theft does ...
Bank Account Details and Security
Almost everyone in the United Kingdom has a bank or building society account or has access to one as partner to a bank account holder. With this in mind it is important to look at how useful these ...
Criminal Records Bureau (CRB Checks)
There may be times when you apply for a job that requires additional checks to be carried out as to your criminal background. Such jobs may involve working with children or minors, the elderly or ...
Data Breaches and Public Security
If you are a UK resident you will not have failed to notice in recent months the furore caused by the loss of thousands – indeed millions – of records relating to personal information on individuals ...
High Street Lending & Personal Details
It is important to remember that when each and every one of us applies for a credit card, bank loan or mortgage, that our information is required to complete such an application and therefore is ...
Insurance Policies and Your Personal Details
Another document that contains considerable information about you as a personal is an insurance policy. Almost all of us have insurance of some kind and it is worth remembering that when applying ...
Mail Theft and Personal Security
Although technology dictates that we now receive many of our bills or banking information via the Internet, much of the information we receive still comes through the post - in fact it's often used ...
PDA's and Your Personal Information
In today's fast moving and technological environment we are finding more and more ways of storing our personal data and taking it with us on the move. In so far as this can be advantageous if we ...
Photographic ID and ID Cards
These days more and more organisations are concerned about the risks of identity theft. Their concerns are two-fold; (a) they do not wish to be the unwilling casualties of fraud as a result of ...
Protecting Your Birth Certificate
Your birth certificate has to be without doubt the most important document you will ever have in your possession. This document gives details that any identity thief would find invaluable in their ...
Protecting your Passport Information
One of the most important documents you will ever own in the course of your life is your passport. Your passport is your key to travelling the world but it can also be the key to others travelling ...
Use Your Credit Score to Stop Identity Theft
Have you or a partner ever been refused credit without being given a definitive reason why? If so this has been the result of a system used by the major banks and building societies of the United ...
Using Credit and Debit Cards Safely
In this fast moving and technologically advancing society we live in it is becoming more and more common place for the use of credit and debit cards as opposed to cheques and cash.
What are Biometric Passports?
With so much emphasis on identity theft and also the introduction of illegal immigrants into the United Kingdom it has been decided by the government to introduce Biometric Passports - or Identity ...
What is Shoulder Surfing?
The notion of shoulder surfing is something that perhaps many find a little bizarre. It is something that each of us does at one point in time in our lives and sometimes without even realising we ...
What to do if your Identity is Stolen?
For many people the idea of having their identity stolen is one that fills them with dread. It is something that many people consider to mean that they will be liable for any debts that are accrued ...
Who is at Risk from Forgery?
Something that many people have failed to take into consideration as still being active criminally is forgery. It is considered to be a criminal activity that is no longer of any great significance ...
Why Shred Personal Documents?
With so much emphasis being put on security both in terms of our identity and our finances it is important to ensure that every effort is made to make the identity thief's job as difficult as ...
Your Details and the Electoral Register
The electoral register is an important source of information for businesses, companies, law enforcement agencies and councils in finding individuals throughout the United Kingdom.

It is ...
Your National Insurance Number
During our lives we are required to carry passports, driving licences, National Health Cards and other documentation that is designed to prove our identity to those in positions of authority. But ...

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