Posts Tagged pre-paid credit cards
MP wants to hobble a useful counter-measure to Identity theft
Posted by Nick Cowen in Civil Liberty, Crime on 23/07/2010
Geraint Davies MP wants to end the use of anonymous pre-paid credit cards on the grounds that they can be used to purchase child pornography. The problem with his suggestion is that it doesn’t take into account all the manifold legitimate uses of pre-paid credit cards. In fact, they might well be much more of a force for good, allowing vulnerable people, especially children, to protect their identity on the Internet.
