I have been reading slashdot since the late 90's, though the quality of the discussions have gone down significantly its still a good way to find interesting artcles, the other day when checking it or I ran across a post on the topic of identify theft.
The associated article was from the NY Times and it provides some highlights of a paper from Chris Hoofnagle, a senior fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California at Berkeley on “Measuring Identity Theft at Top Banks”.
The basic idea behind the work is that folks need to have an idea of the risks associated with doing business with different banks, I love this; folks should vote with their pocket books.