Archive for the 'Biometrics' Category

Aadhaar: on a platform of myths

Posted at Sunday, July 17th, 2011 by andrew

R. Ramakumar, Associate Professor with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, writes in The Hindu comparing India’s ID card project with the last Labour governments’:
Two countries. Two pet projects of the respective Prime Ministers. Unmistakable parallels in the discourse. “The case for ID cards is a case not about liberty, but about the [...]

Home Office will not back down on DNA database

Posted at Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 by andrew

Computing magazine reports:
The Home Office has refused to back down in the face of a concerted campaign from Labour MPs to retain the DNA profiles of suspects, who are not subsequently convicted, on the DNA database.
Junior Home Office minister James Brokenshire accused Labour MPs demanding continued retention of the records of being “very casual with [...]

U-turn again

Posted at Friday, June 24th, 2011 by andrew

Helen Gibson writes in Progress magazine:
One of the first coalition policies to be announced in 2010 was a plan to grant anonymity to men accused of committing rape. This had not been a policy in either the Tory of Liberal Democrat manifesto, and yet appeared to be cooked up by the cabal of eight white [...]

Miliband May Know the Detail But His Policies Are Wrong

Posted at Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 by andrew

Alex Massie writes in the Spectator:
For all the talk of Cameron and his grasp of detail the fact remains that Miliband may, as Swot of the Lower Fourth, have the nuts and bolts but he’s wrong – hopelessly, utterly wrong – on policy. To recap, today he asked the Prime Minister:
“Around 5,000 people each year [...]

Police breaking law by keeping DNA of the innocent, supreme court rules

Posted at Thursday, May 19th, 2011 by andrew

Alan Travis writes in The Guardian:
The supreme court has declared that chief constables who refuse to delete the DNA profiles of more than 1 million innocent people on request are acting unlawfully.
The ruling by the most senior judges in England and Wales says that the current police policy of indefinitely keeping DNA profiles of people [...]

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