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iPlayer is Public - leave it alone

September 23rd, 2009

Will someone tell the former BBC One controller to go away (being polite). Apparently he says BBC's iPlayer users should be charged to use the service. Oh no, you don't get paid for doing this twice. We pay a licence fee (a disguised tax) for BBC services and iPlayer was devloped with that money. Sorry mate unless you want to hand back the devlopment costs to us in a reduction in licence fee, you can go fly a kite.

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Identity Fraud - some random stuff.

September 17th, 2009

The estimate for the cost of identity fraud to the UK Economy - £1.2 billion or around £25 for every adult in Britain. See: http://www.identitytheft.org.uk/cms/assets/cost_of_identity_fraud_to_the_uk_economy_2006-07.pdf

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Identity Stolen: Day 3

September 15th, 2009

Decided to ring the police first thing in the morning, to update the report with the extra information I had but ended holding on for so long that I gave up. Just as I was leaving the house for work, my security code from checkmyfile came in the post.

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Identity Stolen: Day 2

September 14th, 2009

After my unsuccessful evening, I waited until just after nine to contact the relevant people. Started by emailing checkmyfile.co.uk to find out if there is an alternative way to obtain my credit reports sooner than the three days, I was informed it would take.

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Identity Stolen: Day 1

September 11th, 2009

Thursday started like normal until about lunchtime, I got a phone call at work, on the work landline number, from a company called paydayloansuk.co.uk. The ensuring conversation which was supposed to be about my recent application was no doubt confusing both for the caller and myself with me refusing to answer any 'security' questions and her refusing to release any details of my application. The conversation ended with a promise to send me a text message about the issue, no mobile phone number asked for or given. Said text message was not received and I put it down to a possible dubious sales tactic.

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