IT companies are now queuing up to predict problems with the Home Office’s ID card scheme. The latest is Unisys. Mark Tran writes in The Guardian:
“A national ID card for the UK is overly ambitious, extremely expensive and will not be a panacea against terrorism or fraud, although it will make a company like mine [...]
ZDnet’s leader column issues a call to arms to the Lords in the aftermath of the ID Cards Bill’s passage through the Commons:
Where are our legal safeguards against official abuse? Where is the detailed costing? Where is the biometric technology that will work for sixty million individuals? What will happen to us when our card [...]
Niels J Bjergstrom, Editor of Information Security Bulletin slams the Home Office ID Cards plan as, amongst other things, “particularly unimaginative” and in general as being “an obnoxious piece of legislation”:
[The Home Office's] goals seem to be missing: ‘enabling and facilitating a society based on e-commerce’, ‘increasing individual freedom by enhancing anonymity and privacy’, ‘enabling [...]
The Register reports on a new 2004(?) paper published by Iris Recognition developer John Daugman that demonstrates that using multiple biometrics in identifying an individual is less reliable than using only one.
Counter to Home Office claims, and what might seem to some (e.g. Tony McNulty) common sense, using a generally accurate method of biometric identification [...]
According to The Register:
Microsoft UK National Technology Officer Jerry Fishenden has warned that the UK ID card scheme could trigger “massive identity fraud on a scale beyond anything we have seen before.” Writing in today’s Scotsman, Fishenden says that the security implications of storing biometrics centrally are enormous. “Unlike other forms of information such as [...]
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