Companies House contributing to identity theft

[xoggoth]

As CIT said, such information is also useful to people who want to avoid being scammed. Looked into an investment a while back that looked a bit too good to be true and found online a) it had been going for too short a time to have any credentials and b) a founding director had been involved in a previous wonderful opportunity that left a lot of people out of pocket.

[abbash]

Company house should disclose age of the director who happens to be the only employee

Age discrimination is ripe in the world of job seeking.
If the age of the company director is available then if it happens that the director is the only employee of the company, the employer may not give the contract based on the director's age.

Even worse is some of the bad agencies will look at your age and rule your company out before even the potential employer gets to see your skills and that's what we are talking about!

I have approached my MP about the age information at least to omitted from company house's information but no luck there.

It is really terrible!
Hope they do something about that soon.

[Clare@InTouch]

Age discrimination is ripe in the world of job seeking.
If the age of the company director is available then if it happens that the director is the only employee of the company, the employer may not give the contract based on the director's age.

Even worse is some of the bad agencies will look at your age and rule your company out before even the potential employer gets to see your skills and that's what we are talking about!

I have approached my MP about the age information at least to omitted from company house's information but no luck there.

It is really terrible!
Hope they do something about that soon.

Surely the potential employer/client company would have met and interviewed the candidate, in which case they'd have a good idea about their age anyway......

[d000hg]

Governments and unique Id's - now that's an oxymoron - do you have any idea how many duplicated NI numbers are knocking around the country?

Do you? Do you have information about it?

What about passport numbers?

[SueEllen]

Do you? Do you have information about it?

Quick google search revealed this and this

[Clare@InTouch]

The whole duplicate NI number thing is quite scary really. The figures I've seen, although a few years old now, are:

2001 2,539

2002 2,418

2003 2,533

2004 1,896

2005 1,991

2006 1,984

House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 17 Sep 2007 (pt 0029)

Worth noting that if you have a UTR too, so you file a tax return, I doubt you'd have a problem as there would be a further level of checking.

[Jeebo72]

Having just been the victim of identity fraud where all they used was my name, address and DOB, with someone else's bank details, I can safely say it's a right royal pain in the butt!!! It's caused me no end of bother, time, and very slight financial pain.

[SueEllen]

Having just been the victim of identity fraud where all they used was my name, address and DOB, with someone else's bank details, I can safely say it's a right royal pain in the butt!!! It's caused me no end of bother, time, and very slight financial pain.

Unfortunately you now need to do this

[Jeebo72]

Unfortunately you now need to do this

Been through it all ...