Wednesday, November 22, 2006

So where's the liability? I've been ranting on about the issue of limitations of liability in identity schemes for a while now, so I thought it high time to put my head over the parapet and see what happens. 8:09:25 AM    comment []

ID Cards protect privacy Jerry has pointed out an article by Joan Ryan MP in which she states that ID Cards will protect privacy. I think what she (or her advisors) means to say is that ID Cards - if designed, implemented and managed correctly - could protect privacy. I've yet to see evidence that will happen. 8:01:36 AM    comment []

Privacy all over the place So today's headlines include: Logica CMG suffered a burglary in which a laptop containing the Met Police's payroll was stolen; the Lantern mobile fingerprinting trial starts with Bedfordshire police. As I understand it, Lantern takes only a template rather than a full image, and does not enrol the fingerprint in IDENT1, so as such there's not a privacy hit here - although far more worrying is the compulsion to provide a print, which exists because if you refuse then you'll get arrested, which in turn means that the police will have the right to take (and keep) your DNA record... Laura Bush, daughter of the world's most powerful person, had her handbag stolen despite the presence of numerous secret service agents. 7:58:22 AM    comment []

It's oh so quiet... I've been rather busy over the past month or so, including signing up a number of new members to EPG, plenty of speaking engagements, and a consulting job (have to pay for Christmas somehow), hence why there's been so little traffic here. However, that should all change in the New Year - we've commissioned a brand-new EPG website with extra bells and whistles and a side portion of interactive stuff, which will include the blog. Watch this space. 7:50:12 AM    comment []