The Daily Mail, BBC, PA, The Register and others have coverage of “The Identity Project: an assessment of the UK Identity Cards Bill and its implications”, a report from the LSE. The Daily Mail’s opening paragraphs are typical of the coverage: A group of prominent academics have urged ministers to abandon their planned national identity [...]
Prompted by a warning about the security of certain products issued by Microsoft, VNUnet’s Alistair Dabbs asks: Will biometric security harm users?. He’s concerned about biometric security on consumer and business products, but the same arguments apply much more strongly to huge, heavily-used systems such as that proposed for UK ID control. Yet many people [...]
PA reports that at least some Tory MPs are vowing to stop the ID cards bill being rushed though parliament in a pre-election “wash-up”: Tory Andrew Mackay (Bracknell) said there was a tradition in the House that only non-controversial bills were fast-tracked ahead of an election. “Did I hear you correctly when you said you [...]
Alexander Deane in Australia’s On-line Opinion puts the case against lucidly. The “War on Terror” has produced many strange political situations. In Britain, a left-wing government is now proposing this authoritarian measure: in Australia, a right-wing government is opposing it. In my opinion, the Howard Government is right, and the Blair Government is wrong. Here’s [...]
Bruce Schneier writes on a recent case where a US company, ChoicePoint, sold the credit reports of 145,000 people to criminal gangs, then tried to cover it up. Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in the U.S., and an enormous problem elsewhere in the world. It’s expensive — both in money and time — to [...]
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