ID commissioner sees risks in IPS’s two-stage IT
According to ZDnet:
Identity commissioner Sir Joseph Pilling has expressed concerns about the Identity and Passport Service’s two-stage approach to its core technology.
“The IPS have gone for what they call a tactical and a strategic solution to the IT demands of running an ID scheme in this country,” he told the Security Document World conference in London on 8 February. One system has been put in place for the small-scale launch of the scheme, but another will be introduced when it is expanded by forcing passport applicants to enrol.
“I am not sure whether if you have two schemes in short order you double, treble or quadruple the risk or even more than that, but I am pretty clear that it is a quite ambitious approach to take, and I am particularly intending to take an interest in the transition from the tactical to the strategic,” said Sir Joseph.
February 9th, 2010 at 14:14
The report serves to emphasise that the full-scale National Identity Register hasn’t been built yet. All the Home Office has at the moment is a small trial version. Axing the ID scheme in the next few months would save the huge as-yet-unspent budget for this dangerous scheme.
February 9th, 2010 at 18:23
Well, if all they have at the moment is a small trial version there should not be too much complaining about all the money which has been spent when the National Identity Register is scrapped.