Computerworld Australia staff report:
Proposed amendments to the Northern Territory’s Criminal Code would make it an offence to collect and store identification details about another person for the purposes of identity theft. Under current legislation, a person who obtains someone else’s ID details can’t be prosecuted until they commit a crime.
Speaking in the NT parliament this week, Attorney-General John Elferink said that if a person has all the “pre-cursors” in place to commit a crime, they should be charged.
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