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 [...]
I would like to add my name along with the Barcode Nation as a whole to the following letter from today’s Guardian:
With the approval of parliament, our government is planning to hold more information about us than ever before. It wants a national identity database of every UK citizen, identity cards for many UK residents, DNA [...]
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 [...]
Coming towards the end of the year I felt it appropriate to comment on where we are with the battle against the UK’s surveillance state. However, Henry Porter of the Guardian hits the perfect note in his Christmas Day blog post which is essential reading for all.
The advance made in Britain in 2008 is that [...]
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.
