Identity fraud to rise once new Government databases are set up
Christopher Hope writes in The Daily Telegraph:
Britain’s proposed ID card database will never be 100 per cent secure, according to a new report.
The Government must accept that citizens will be put at risk as a result of inevitable breaches, it warns.
The report from the Information Assurance Advisory Council said the creation of a “national identity infrastructure” was inevitable as the need for each person to have a “trustworthy” electronic identity increases.
However, this laid the people’s details open to misuse or loss of confidential data which would be impossible to prevent.
David Davis MP, former shadow home secretary, said the report again highlighted that the plan for a national ID card database was “a totally unnecessary intrusion on our privacy”.
