The number of passwords and logins web users need makes it inevitable they will re-use phrases, warned the International Telecommunications Union.<\/p>\n
Re-using these identifiers puts people at serious risk of falling victim to identity theft, said the ITU report.<\/p>\n
It called on regulators and businesses to find better ways for people to identify themselves to websites.<\/p>\n
Net trends towards personalisation and efforts by websites to track users are leading users to maintain a growing list of the logins and passwords. But this comes with risks, warns the ITU report.<\/p>\n
“This may cause security breaches, and leave them vulnerable to the machinations of identity thieves ever increasing in number and inventiveness,” said the report.<\/p>\n
The UK government estimates that ID theft costs the nation ?1.7bn every year.<\/p>\n
As well as being dangerous, being forced to generate so many login names and passwords wasted time and was very unwieldy, said the report.<\/p>\n
“The lack of coordination in identification systems is a source of growing inconvenience to users and needs to be addressed rapidly,” it said.<\/p>\n
The UN agency urged net firms, businesses and government bodies to create better or more unified ways for people to use websites that would help to safeguard their identity online.<\/p>\n
The growing problem of ID theft could stunt the growth of net commerce as users become wary of spending money online, warned the ITU.<\/p>\n
The warning about the growing number of online identities that people maintain came in the 2006 Internet report from the ITU. <\/p>\n
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