Nick Allen writes in the Daily Telegraph about the growing controversy about BAA’s plans to fingerprint passengers at Terminal 5, which opens on Thursday 27th March:
Plans to fingerprint millions of passengers at Heathrow’s new fifth terminal could be illegal and have been challenged by the UK’s data protection watchdog.
The Information Commissioner’s Office warned airport operator [...]
WhatPC? carries an interview given by James Hall (chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service) to Tom Young. Here’s the concluding question:
Q: How are you going to persuade people to take cards with so much hostility to the scheme?
A: We would like to issue cards to drivers and young people and private sector workers [...]
Warwick Ashford writes in Computer Weekly:
Only one in 10 adults in the UK trusts the government with their personal data, an online survey reveals.
By contrast, the survey of over 1,000 people by IT security supplier Data Encryption Systems (DES) showed 74% were willing to share personal information with banks, employers and friends.
The level of trust [...]
According to the BBC:
Union leaders representing airport workers are to meet Home Office officials to express their concern at being among the first to have ID cards.
Steve Turner of the Unite union will say that his members oppose the plan.
Mr Turner says staff are already extensively vetted before being given airside passes.
Gaby Hinsliff writes in The Observer:
Millions of commuters could have their private movements around cities secretly monitored under new counter-terrorism powers being sought by the security services.
Records of journeys made by people using smart cards that allow 17 million Britons to travel by underground, bus and train with a single swipe at the ticket barrier [...]
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