Tom Espiner writes in ZDnet:
Frank Abagnale, a one-time fraudster who now works with law-enforcement agencies, strongly criticised the UK ID cards scheme at the RSA Conference Europe 2007 on Wednesday. At a press Q&A session before his keynote, Abagnale said that one weak link in an organisation can compromise the whole system.
“With the ID [...]
The Conservative party is using its opposition to the ID cards scheme to try to woo Liberal Democrat voters. Patrick Wintour writes in the Guardian:
Mr Cameron said Lib Dem voters who were interested in the environment, who wanted greater power going to local government, who were opposed to ID cards and wanted to prioritise education [...]
Mark Howarth writes in the Sunday Herald:
A cross-border spat erupted last night over new Home Office plans for compulsory ID cards in Scotland.
The Sunday Herald can reveal that the UK government is considering fast-tracking the project by using the micro-chipped bus passes held by more than a million Scots. Whitehall officials have set up a [...]
The Home Office has announced a shortlist of 8 bidders for the ID cards scheme. Tash Shifrin reports in Computerworld:
The Identity and Passport Service is expecting bidders for the £5.4bn ID cards scheme to raise critical points about the feasibility of the scheme as part of the competitive dialogue that forms the next part of [...]
Steve Baldry (principal consultant at Atos Consulting) writes in Computer Weekly:
The degree of concern and comment about identity cards in the UK makes Atos Origin wonder whether during the debate the plot has been lost. Our concern is that two different issues, secure individual identification and customer information collection, have been rolled together. In the [...]
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