Complaints hurled at antifraud plan

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An Audit Commission scheme to reduce benefit fraud may tarnishinnocent people with a fraudster's brush, reports Rob Jones

The Audit Commission's decision to carry out a massive data matching initiative to catch benefit cheats may be laudable, but raises a number of civil liberty and data protection concerns. Branded...

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