Henry Porter writes in The Observer:
The most shocking part of Britain’s frantic rush towards a fully fledged surveillance society is not so much the threat to personal liberty, although that is important; it is the lack of security in the systems that are confidently held up to be the solution to the problems of 21st-century [...]
Steve Boggan writes in The Guardian:
The government was facing demands to recall 3m micro-chipped biometric passports last night after a Guardian investigation which found that they could be electronically attacked and cloned with a £174 microchip reader.
Biometric data was transferred to a PC after gaining access to the chips in three passports. The findings are [...]
Paul Routledge writes in The Mirror:
Just for the record: readers of the Yorkshire Post were asked in a phone-in poll if Identity Cards should be made compulsory. Seventysix out of 100 said “No”, and 24 per cent said “Yes”.
Remember that, next time government ministers claim – as they always do – that the overwhelming majority [...]
Tony Collins writes in Computer Weekly:
The Identity and Passport Service – the agency due to introduce national ID cards – has postponed indefinitely a much simpler IT project to allow people to apply and pay online for passports, despite making a “significant investment” in the system.
Last week the prime minister Tony Blair renewed his support [...]
John Lettice writes in The Register:
The EU-funded FIDIS (Future of Identity in the Information Society) project has warned that implementation of the current generation of biometric travel ID will dramatically decrease security and privacy, and increase the risk of identity theft. In the Budapest Declaration, which derives from FIDIS’ September meeting in Budapest, FIDIS calls [...]
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