Credit crunch to increase fraud, experts warn

Challenge was presented to a meeting of the North East Fraud Forum in Newcastle as part of a package of dissemination activities undertaken by the University of Leeds (WP6) to promote the relevance of Challenge research findings to non-typical and non-academic organizations whose daily business addresses concerns researched by Challenge . A feature of the WP6 work has been the impact of technology on privacy, cross-border data and information exchange, and the associated problems of insecurity, fraud, weak public trust and accountability. Prof Juliet Lodge first addressed economic sectoral interests on this at the National Fraud Forum in London in 2006, and more recently spoke at the European Parliament Legal Services meeting (addressed by the European Data Protection Supervisor) in Brussels on the implications post-Lisbon for managing these matters.

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Credit crunch to increase fraud, experts warn