More transparency needed to see true scope of identity theft

Christopher Hoofnagle quoted in Des Moines Register, June 23, 2012

Chris Hoofnagle, an identity theft expert at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, said banks too often forgo participating in criminal investigations, choosing to spread the costs of their untold losses to customers instead…. “Many banks do not cooperate because they risk having to appear in court to discuss how the institution was swindled.”