Unless they are guilty of a “Burnhamism”, the US Government has decided not to include RFID chips on new US passports after receiving a huge number of complaints about the possible privacy implications (complaints which they posted on their website with the email addresses of the complainants – heh, nice going US passport office).
Whilst [...]
The Register reports that researchers at Riscure have managed to crack biometric data held on Dutch passports from a distance of 10 metres. If this research proves to be correct, identity thieves could therefore skim all details carried on the passports without the carrier’s knowledge.
In another article we see how Andy Burnham is [...]
The BBC reports comments by the Government-appointed independent reviewer of terrorism laws:
ID cards would be of “limited value” against terror and would not have prevented the London attacks in July, says the reviewer of anti-terror laws.
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Carlile said he had changed his mind on identity cards, which he had previously backed.
“I can’t [...]
The Mirror is claiming an exclusive for its front-page story on RFID chips in ID cards:
Plans to fit radio transmitters in identity cards were greeted with fury last night as opponents claimed they could be a spy device.
Angry MPs and pressure groups said the cards might lead to a Big Brother state by tracking the [...]
Another good day in the Lords is widely reported. According to Nigel Morris and Ben Russell writing in The Independent:
Angry peers last night invoked the memory of fascist regimes which forced citizens to carry their papers as they tore the heart out of the Government’s planned legislation for identity cards.
The House of Lords overturned proposals [...]
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