For those of who have wondered how under-cover policing will work, when “anyone entering a false identity on the database would be stuck with it”, Bruce Schneier picks up an interesting story from US law enforcement. Ohio Agents Use Woman’s Identity in Strip-Bar Sting
The original Associated Press story is here.
Supporters of Ohio’s identity [...]
The BBC reports Trial ID card scheme is withdrawn.
This isn’t the Passport Service’s famous vanishing biometric trial, but a Cornish experiment using smart cards for access to local services.
Cornish Key is operated by a partnership of local district and county councils.
North Cornwall District Council is one of the partners and spokesman Paul Masters believes [...]
According to the Evening Standard:
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair is today accused of supporting Labour by openly backing one of the party’s key policies.
Britain’s most senior police chief was facing difficult questions after speaking out in favour of identity cards.
His intervention, in the middle of the general election campaign, angered the Tories and Liberal [...]
Sir Ian Blair, Metropolitan Police Commissioner, has been speaking about ID cards on BBC One’s Breakfast With Frost:
Asked whether ID cards should be introduced after the election, he said: “I think there has to be further consideration of that.”
As BBC political correspondent Shaun Ley observes:
“However, comments on the ID card scheme were “highly political” [...]
The Inquirer reports US is not pressuring UK for biometric data
British folks, who’ve been listening to Blair and Blunkett defend the ID card proposal for months on the basis that the ICAO and the US will require us to have biometrics in our passports anyway, so the costs of the ID card itself are smaller [...]
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