BBC NEWS | Technology | How to sell your self for a song
The chance to win theatre tickets is enough to make people give away their identity, reveals a survey. Of those taking part 92% revealed details such as mother's maiden name, first school and birth date. The detailed personal information was gathered by market researchers who asked the questions as part of a fake survey on theatre-going habits. Dangling the chance to win free tickets was enough to make people surrender everything needed to impersonate them.... One of the questions was about the way that actors pick stage names. Those taking part in the survey were told that many stage names are created using a pet's name and the actor's mother's maiden name. When asked what their stage name would be using the same criteria, 94% volunteered information.
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