News website Hi Pakistan reports:
If you have lost your national ID card, or allowed a copy of it to slip away, it could be used for opening a fake business company, to do the business of supplies and exports.
This highlights the Parkinson’s Law of security: the more bureaucracy; the more scope for fraud.
“But [...]
ID card for nationals, expats ‘by year end’ – Khaleej Times, Dubai
The Gulf States are as keen on modernising civil liberties as our New Labour government.
MSPs reject Labour’s ID card plan – BBC
“MSPs rejected ID cards by 52 votes to 47 after the Green motion received cross-party support, although the matter is reserved to Westminster.”
But puzzlingly,
“The Liberal Democrats abstained from the vote.”
The BBC report that Maxine Carr has been granted an indefinite order protecting her new identity by the High Court.
This highlights numerous weaknesses in the case for biometric identity documents of any kind.
Under identity card plans that include supposedly infallible biometrics those who require a new identity will no longer be able to maintain it [...]
The Philippines are considering identity cards too, and like here there is a great deal of suspicion around the proposals. In an article in The Freeman, Jerry Tundag writes on the myths behind arguements for identity cards. Would identity cards prevent terrorism in the Phillipines, a country possibly more likely to experience it [...]
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