We now have proof that all the government’s waffle about our identities being safe and secure in their care is a load of cr@p.
Computer Weekly has revealed that staff at THIRTY local authorities have been responsible for “serious security breaches” in the government database that will form the core of the national ID cards programme. [...]
Long Live Devolution!
The Scottish Government has written to Westminster expressing their continued opposition to the national identity scheme. In a move that’s sure to add weight to the argument from the anti-ID brigade, Community Safety Minister Fergus Ewing MSP said the scheme posed an “unacceptable threat to citizen’s civil liberties and privacy”. He also criticised [...]
The Number10 ePetitions website was set up some time ago to allow the public to get together and demand a response from Government on an issue. This one caught my eye:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to hold a referendum on ID cards and the National Identity Register
In view of the government’s inability to [...]
The great and the good (sic) of the world’s identity technologists will come together in Abu Dhabi in February. The Citizen ID Forum describes itself as “the global symposium on the digitalisation of citizen identification documents”
A similar event held in 2008 was described thus:
“It really gave us the opportunity to see the best technologies available [...]
The Guardian has published a very useful guide to the Identity Cards Act 2006. As well as describing the main provisions of the act, the article goes on to discuss the background leading up to it and significant coverage of the criticisms, notably from Liberty and NO2ID.
Well worth a read. It’s also a useful link [...]
It seems not a week goes past now without another example of public sector officials misplacing our private data. The latest dose of stupidity comes from a NHS Trust staff member in Lancashire. The health worker lost a memory stick being used to backup 6,000 records from clinical databases at HMP Preston.
The memory stick was [...]
Have a read of this article from the Calgary Herald, describing the experience of Alicia Paziuk who suffered a case of identity fraud this year.
According to the article, 10,000 Canadians suffered from identity fraud in 2008, losing a total of $8.8m. But what interests us is the psychological effect on the victims:
“It really can shake [...]
NO2ID has released a controversial new video attacking the National Identity Register. Have a read of the background to Take Jane, watch the video and let us know what you think.
