Tom Espiner writes for ZDNet: The Home Office has said it is considering enlisting IT companies to test the security of its ID cards, but still refuses to meet a researcher who claims to have created a fake that would bypass security procedures. Last week, RFID security expert Adam Laurie said he had found a [...]
David Moss writes in The Register about Identity and Passport Service’s proposed use of biometrics. After 6 fact-filled pages, he concludes: One thing is clear, though, and that is that biometrics cannot deliver. Identification is not feasible. Verification is laughably unreliable. And the flat earther David Blunkett is wrong. So is Tony Blair when he [...]
According to Kable GC News: A detailed analysis of the National Identity Scheme’s costs for UK citizens by Kable suggests that the £4.95bn cost over 10 years could be reduced by £3.08bn to £1.88bn, if a future government abandoned identity cards, the National Identity Register and fingerprints on passports. The Conservative Party has pledged to [...]
Richard Edwards writes in the Daily Telegraph: The average motorist has their car journeys recorded and stored by police almost 100 times a year, new figures show, furthering concerns over the growing surveillance state. Forces across the country have expanded a car surveillance operation that will soon record up to 50 million licence plates each [...]
Henry Porter writes in the Daily Mail about the rise of the Database State: Labour is also behind a flurry of new databases that either leech personal information from each one of us or require innocent members of the public to go through an endless rigmarole of proving themselves to the state. The scale of [...]
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