identity cards in comment and analysis
Is Skype secure enough for businesses?
Comment They sell for $12 each, alongside stolen credit cards details with card verification values ($1 to $6) and a full identity including US bank account, credit card, date of birth and government issued... [02 Apr 2007]
Leader: Are e-petitions good for democracy?
Leader More than 27,000 people who signed a separate petition calling for the ID cards scheme to be scrapped received an email from the PM this week too. In it Blair argues ID cards will help secure the UK's... [20 Feb 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.11.06
Round-Up And in the week when it transpired that the Western world will be ruled for at least the next year by a lame duck and a poodle - which sounds more like the cast of Animal Hospital than a quarter of the G8 - it's fitting Tony Blair was... [10 Nov 2006]
Prepare for some 'digital tension'
Comment Firstly Europe needs to promote common principles of privacy and security at an EU and possibly global level while respecting national approaches on important issues such as identity cards. As global... [27 Sep 2006]
Leader: Will biometrics turn us into a nation of hoodies?
Leader Biometric security could be a tremendous benefit but at the same time it will spawn a new generation of identity thieves who will want to use our biometric information to break into our bank accounts and... [24 Jul 2006]
Leader: ID cards face identity crisis
Leader As one by one the political justifications for ID cards - such as terrorism and identity fraud - fall by the wayside, and as the government seems stumped by the technical difficulties of the project, it... [10 Jul 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 4
Comment She smiles at me, so I smile back and she shows me some English flash cards she's using. This is his warts-and-all diary, which appears daily this month. For in-depth coverage of this fact-finding trip inside China,... [13 Jun 2006]
Analysis: Security, compliance and CRM in one
Comment The deployment of chip and PIN credit cards is a mass-market example. Identity management promises to secure corporate data, ease compliance and support customers. It is essential that someone takes... [15 May 2006]
Radioactive: Toddler telephony taps parental paranoia
Comment A school in Buffalo, New York, attracted attention in 2003 by using RFID tags embedded in their school identity cards to keep track of their pupils. RFID-based identity systems are more... [15 May 2006]
Leader: ID card dreams and nightmares
Leader This too might be wishful thinking, considering the numbers of refuseniks there could be by the time the cards are finally ready. But no mention of any problems such as false negatives, where the system can't recognise... [21 Apr 2006]
Leader: ID cards fight must go on
Leader After a two-year struggle the government finally got its way this week when the Conservative Party lost its nerve and backed down over the controversial ID cards bill. Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in the House of... [31 Mar 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: RFID - what can it do for the business?
Comment Even Big Brother-like loyalty cards can be deployed without a ripple, providing a retailer promises sufficient reward points, tokens or money off. After all, the idea is to deliver a business solution that includes... [16 Mar 2006]
Leader: Why public support for ID cards is falling
Leader The government looks set to continue its attempts to steamroller its ID cards legislation through parliament this week, despite evidence that public support for the controversial scheme is collapsing as people - albeit... [13 Mar 2006]
Leader: Don't be fooled by Blair's "cardboard" ID compromise
Leader This "compromise" centres on the amendments to the ID cards bill by the House of Lords last month in which peers defeated the government plan to make it compulsory for people to submit their biometric details for the... [10 Feb 2006]
Leader: Government sums don't add up
Leader It seems the Home Office - the government department tasked with the now thankless job of promoting the case for the introduction of ID cards - isn't very good at numbers. The Home Office has denied that the ID fraud... [02 Feb 2006]
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