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Equifax: About those 400,000 UK records we lost? It's now 15.2M. Yes, M for MEELLLION

Alan Brown Silver badge

"it is still possible to obtain a Birth Certificate for anyone with minimal effort"

Freely available to anyone who asks and pays the fee.

"and then use this to request a UK passport "

The method used should have been sealed in the 1960s. After all it's the registrar of Births _DEATHS_ and marriages, so it's not as if the relevant disqualification document is filed in another government department.

(FWIW, many countries _do_ tag records with a death date specifically to ensure that ID documents in the name of dead children can't be obtained. The UK seems to think this is too hard despite it being a known vulnerablity long before Frederick Forsythe wrote about it.)

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