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Register – ID cards technology is ready, says UK minister
Silicon.com – ID cards: Biometrics work… sort of
Now here’s the really good news…
Independent – US wants to be able to access Britons’ ID cards: The United States wants Britain’s proposed identity cards to have the same microchip and technology as the ones used on American documents. The aim of getting the same microchip is to ensure compatibility in screening terrorist suspects. But it will also mean that information contained in the British cards can be accessed across the Atlantic.
FFS, even if you disregard the privacy and liberty issues here, you have to acknowledge that this government has produced an impressive series of IT disasters. I am *not* going to trust them with my data.
No2ID: The Bill is the same insidious legislation as the last – even the Constitutional Committee’s recommendation to change its name to something more accurate has been ignored. Their Lordships thought it unusual that the two main parts of the project, the national identity database containing biometrics and personal data, and the trackable audit trail of every occasion where the details are checked, didn’t receive a more obvious advert. Perhaps the Home Office thought that the ID Card, Byzantine and Broken Identity Register and Orwellian Audit Trail Bill doesn’t have the same ring to it.
PS – I love this new justification riding on the back of a popular and effective commercial advertising campaign; ID Cards: your solution to identity theft!
UPDATE – Chicken Yoghurt – The vultures are circling: There aren’t any contracts in place yet, the Home Office said so. So riddle me this: how can anything be commercially confidential at this stage? The fix, it would seem, is in. There’s your culture of respect right there.
By Talk Politics May 28, 2005 - 12:52 pm
ID Cards Pt 3 – There is no escape
One the options being discussed in a number of places is the possibility of civil disobedience should the Identity Cards Bill makes its way into law, the simplest form of which being a refusal to register for a card – after all, at this stage, they’re …
By Talk Politics May 28, 2005 - 12:53 pm
Tests of Integrity and Intent
Another day and some more information you may not have come across regarding the Identity Cards Bill.One of the key omissions from the bill is that it has no provisions whatsoever to cover the recording of information from the National Identity Reg…
By Talk Politics May 28, 2005 - 12:54 pm
Unlocking the Register
As some have rightly identified already, the key to understanding the potential threat to civil liberties posed by the Identity Cards Bill is not the cards themselves or even their content, the biometric data on which so much debate has focussed but ra…