Comments on: ID cards marked for fast rollout http://www.no2id.net/newsblog/2007-08/id-cards-marked-for-fast-rollout/ The latest on Identity Cards and Databases in the UK Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:28:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: andrew http://www.no2id.net/newsblog/2007-08/id-cards-marked-for-fast-rollout/comment-page-1/#comment-89988 andrew Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:47:12 +0000 http://www.no2id.net/news/newsblog/?p=658#comment-89988 If these rumoured Crosby recommendations are implemented, they would be the second major re-design of the system since the legislation was passed. Doing this while the procurement is in progress is a recipe for a total IT fiasco - the database infrastructure needed for millions of online biometric verifications per day is entirely different to the one needed for mere biometric enrolment. It looks as if we are watching government continuously scaling back the scope of the ID card plans to try to keep the costs from ballooning into the tens of billions. However, even the proposed scaled-down “ID broker” scheme would probably still involve everyone in the country getting a single, unique, government-wide identification number. This is a recipe for rampant identity fraud - see the US Social Security Number system for details. If these rumoured Crosby recommendations are implemented, they would be the second major re-design of the system since the legislation was passed. Doing this while the procurement is in progress is a recipe for a total IT fiasco – the database infrastructure needed for millions of online biometric verifications per day is entirely different to the one needed for mere biometric enrolment.

It looks as if we are watching government continuously scaling back the scope of the ID card plans to try to keep the costs from ballooning into the tens of billions.

However, even the proposed scaled-down “ID broker” scheme would probably still involve everyone in the country getting a single, unique, government-wide identification number. This is a recipe for rampant identity fraud – see the US Social Security Number system for details.

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