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15 October 2008
Jacqui Wants "Openness"
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Jacqui Smith has set out plans to give the police and security services more powers to gather phone and e-mail data. But wait : "I want...
09 October 2008
"I've Never Voted Tory in My Life..."
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....but next time I will if this proposal isn’t dropped. Isn't it interesting how often we're hearing that refrain about ID cards....?
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29 September 2008
ID Cards: Hope and Hopelessness
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There's hope : academic John Daugman, a former member of the Biometrics Assurance Group (BAG), which reviewed the scheme, said its relia...
Let's Frame This...
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.... just in case they need reminding: Dominic Grieve has said it is “high time” Labour abandon their "ill-fated" ID cards projec...
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26 September 2008
Hear, Hear...Here, Here
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A fine, impassioned tirade here from Cory Doctorow about ID cards - now being rolled out to people like him - and how Labour has killed lib...
23 September 2008
Proof That Authoritarianism Leads to Insanity
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A government minister has spoken glowingly of the prospect of kids as young as six handing over their biometrics as she boasted that the Tor...
22 September 2008
UK Gov Short of Cash? Kill the ID Card
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At a time when Labour is pledging "no tax increases", and yet is facing a bigger and bigger deficit, one easy part of the answer ...
22 August 2008
PA Consulting? Pah!
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Since we now know this : Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has blamed a private contractor for losing the details of thousands of criminals, held ...
18 August 2008
ID Cards Break the Laws (of Identity)
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Regular readers of this blog will know that I follow the wacky world of ID cards and related matters quite closely, and it will come as no s...
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23 July 2008
W(h)ither the UK Database Nation?
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Interesting : The court’s view was that health care staff who are not involved in the care of a patient must be unable to access that patien...
04 July 2008
IDiotic or What?
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The chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service has said the ID cards database will not be completely secure. James Hall said on Th...
03 July 2008
ID Cards: Out Come the Jackboots
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Clearly Mr Brown and his chums are beginning to despair over this privacy disaster formerly known as ID cards. Not content with putting on ...
18 June 2008
Our Chains Will Make Us Free
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How Orwellian is this: UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has defended the apparatus of the UK's emerging surveillance society as the means...
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08 June 2008
No ID Card Function Creep? Pull the Other One
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Here's an interesting blast from the past , courtesy of that nice Mr Charles Clarke, one-time home secretary: This letter was sent about...
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29 May 2008
ID Cards: Scandalous as Well as Idiotic
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This is outrageous : A Conservative government would have to compensate suppliers of the National Identity Scheme for lost profits as well a...
28 May 2008
Greenies Go Open
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Pretty much a marriage made in heaven: Open source software should be more widely available in order to help reduce the 'digital divide...
04 April 2008
Microsoft on the Side of the Angels
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No, really : In recent years Microsoft has shown every sign of knowing which way is up when it comes to identity management. The company alr...
01 April 2008
You Must Be Joking
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They can't be serious: This is a proposal for an integrated National Operational Deterrence and Intelligence Surveillance System ...
07 March 2008
ID Cards Are the Ultimate Identity Theft
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This piece by Ian Angell is the definitive rebuttal of the UK government's position on ID cards. It articulates all of my concerns, bu...
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29 January 2008
"Various Forms of Coercion" for ID Cards an "Option"
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This is one of the most despicable documents from the UK Government it has been my misfortune to read. Ostensibly, it is an objective &quo...
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