Tear up that boarding pass

Interesting post on The Guardian today triggered
off by a journalist picking up someone’s airline stub and extracting a staggering
amount of information from it. While a touch sensationalist, it does expose how easy
it is for a savvy operator to retrieve loads of information about individuals, and
what little say everyone has about exactly what information is stored about them.

Guardian Unlimited
| Special reports | Q. What could this boarding pass tell an identity fraudster about
you? A. Way too much

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