Campaigners in Glasgow demonstrated against ID cards during a visit of Home Office Minister Des Browne, who was in the city to view the biometric technology which will be used in the scheme.
Among the protesters to greet Mr Browne as he arrived at the DVLA office in West Campbell Street on Friday, was Patrick Harvie [...]
PublicTechnology.net report on ‘Mistaken Identity’, the public meeting at the London School of Economics at which the NO2ID campaign was announced. And report the speech by Peter Williamson, President of the Law Society of England and Wales in which he says:
“We have consistently argued that the case for a compulsory identity card scheme has simply [...]
A contemporaneous account of the Mistaken Identity meeting at the London School of Economics, with links to other articles and reports.
Identix, the supplier of the fingerprint-reading technology for the UKPS biometrics trial, are in a bit of trouble! Plaintiffs Roger Benson and Miguel Espinoza are seeking restitution in the US for the damage inflicted on them by duplication in police records which gave them other people’s criminal records. Benson was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 days [...]
BBC NEWS report Bob Russell’s uncomfortable experience being scanned for the UKPS trial. More worryingly,
“The pundits tell us that we should expect 7% across the board to fail with iris recognition, mainly due to positioning in front of the camera,” project director Roland Sables told MPs.
“Others are due to eye malformations, watery eyes and long [...]
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