Ally Fogg, writing on the Guardian’s Comment is Free web site, describes the function creep in the application of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, and predicts similar things would happen with ID cards and data-sharing: Fifteen years on, there is little pleasure to be gained from saying “we told you so”. But [...]
John Ozimek, writing in The Register, has been trying to find out why the Department of Children, Schools and Families says authors visiting schools must be on the ISA database, but Government Ministers needn’t: A spokesman said: “The minister works for the department and they visit the school to see things. The author has been [...]
According to the FinancialAdvice.co.uk web site: The controversial ID card system, which has been amended over the last few weeks, may well be used by various government departments to track individual spending habits and assets. In a relatively unpublicised move the UK government has given the Treasury department, and specifically tax inspectors, the ability to [...]
The Economist reports on the new US PASS card, which uses RFID technology less secure than that in ICAO passports: Speedy they may be, but chipped ID cards are horrendously insecure. When prompted, they broadcast their unique identifier in plain text, without any form of encryption or authentication, to anyone who is listening. And because [...]
Zoe Williams writes in The Guardian: It’s been a big week for databases, although nobody has managed to make them sexy. On Monday, the pressure group Liberty underlined the failings of the Criminal Records Bureau – more precisely its enhanced check – for the Today programme. It was quite a story: a woman had been [...]
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