Another good piece by John Lettice in The Register analyses a recent parliamentary answer by Andy Burnham:
Passports and ID cards are unlikely to actually use most the “13 biometrics” the Government proposes to collect on all citizens, which is probably just as well, because they won’t fit. But much of the biometric data that will [...]
Ideal Government reports on conversations which paint a pretty picture of the place of consultation in government procedures:
The head of the Home Office’s ID project team told me last Thursday that none of the companies she had met had felt the scheme was ill-advised or unfeasible. But concerned people in business tell me she refuses [...]
The Information Commissioner has once again criticised the ID Cards Bill, and once again his criticisms centre on the National Identity Register. eGov monitor reports:
The Information Commissioner believes the measures set out in the National Identify Cards Bill go “well beyond” the requirements to set up a secure, reliable and trustworthy ID card system.
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The development [...]
John Lettice writing in The Register neatly dissects the Home Office line that ID cards are somehow a natural result of the international move to “Biometric passports”:
Currently, ICAO wishes to establish an international standard for what it terms a biometric passport. The current requirement for this is merely for passports to include a digital image [...]
Carol Sarler, writing in The Observer, warns of the tide of petty bureaucracy that would follow in the wake of compulsory ID cards. This is one of the reasons that wartime ID cards were finally abolished in 1952.
The [Prevention of Terrorism Act], like the suss laws before it and the ID cards to come, are [...]
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