Financial Identity Theft - Context, Challenges and Countermeasures

The existence of financial identity theft in the United States, and its (gradual) spread to other areas of the world, increases the need to understand how identity theft occurs and how perpetrators of the crime manage to take advantage of developments within contemporary society. This book aims to provide such an understanding through an in-depth comparative analysis which illustrates how states, financial service providers, consumers, and others facilitate the occurrence of financial identity theft in the United States and the Netherlands.

List of contents

Introduction.- Definitional Dilemmas.- State as Protector.- State as Provider.- Financial Service Providers.- Consumers.- The Others.- From Piece to Puzzle.

Summary

The existence of financial identity theft in the United States, and its (gradual) spread to other areas of the world, increases the need to understand how identity theft occurs and how perpetrators of the crime manage to take advantage of developments within contemporary society. This book aims to provide such an understanding through an in-depth comparative analysis which illustrates how states, financial service providers, consumers, and others facilitate the occurrence of financial identity theft in the United States and the Netherlands.

Product details

• Authors: Nicole S. van der Meulen, Nicole S van der Meulen, Nicole S. van der Meulen
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2013
• EAN: 9789067048354
• ISBN: 978-90-6704-835-4
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 17 mm x 238 mm
• Weight: 488 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 306 p.
• Series: Information Technology and Law Series; Information Technology and Law Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; C, Law, Law and Criminology, Mass Media, Computers, IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, Legal aspects of IT, Legal Aspects of Computing, Law and legislation