As I think has already been alluded to, one of the ways is to make the disclosure of some data held by the financial institutions...but also the retail institutions. We're talking a lot about the financial sector. The financial sector sees a lot of this identity theft happening, but the retail institutions are also responsible for the leakage of this data. They should be held responsible. They should be much more forthcoming about these types of events.
I think the government and some kind of authority within government should have the power to request that this data be made available, not necessarily...well, yes, maybe made available on a very broad basis. Someone mentioned the naming and shaming. That's what happened with the anti-theft devices on cars in the 1970s, when the insurance sectors and governments were tired of having so many cars stolen. Someone decided one day to publish the list of the 10 most stolen cars on the market. Twelve months after that, all these cars were equipped, for free for the taxpayers, with anti-theft devices.
So the automakers, who had been saying there was nothing they could do against it, suddenly found the resources and the technology to equip their cars, just because this data was made available to all the consumers to make their decisions based on the facts.
I think it's the role and the responsibility of the government to try to extract this information, not in a punitive way but in order to make this phenomenon more transparent and to make sure that consumers and citizens have all of the information. As my colleague Ms. Lawson said, there is very little that we can do as consumers, as individuals, but there is a lot that organizations can do to protect us as consumers.