35 Facts the Government Wants About You (UK Mirror)

[magellan]

EACH ID cards could link holders to a vast amount personal information.

Under the plans, a database will hold 35 pieces of data on every British citizen and resident aged 16 and over.

Each card would carry a chip with the holder's details on linking to the database.

As well as basic identification details it would contain aliases, previous addresses, National Insurance, passport and driving licence numbers and immigration status.

35 Facts the Government Wants About You

Madness. Even if the info was used legitimately, it's bound to wind up just another boondoggle of data mistakes that need fixing, like credit reports....

[TahitiNut]

1. Can you imagine what Nazi Germany would've done with computers?

Imagine how much more 'effective' they would've been with the database and network technology of today.

:puke: :scared: :puke: :scared: :puke: :scared: :puke:

[Mike Niendorff]

2. frighteningly appropriate question (n/t)

MDN

[SariesNightly]

3. Why, to better see you with my little red riding hood

Big Brother Will Rub His Hands in Glee Over New Passports

ph. On October 4th Bruce Schneier, a security technologist, published an article, 'Passport radio chips send too many signals', in the International Herald Tribune. According to him the Bush administration's Department of Homeland Security wants machine-readable passports, worldwide. Embedded in these passports will be a computer chip (radio frequency identity chips) containing information about the bearer which can be read from a distance.

"Unfortunately, RFID chips can be read by any reader, not just the ones at passport control. The upshot of this is that travelers carrying around RFID passports are broadcasting their identity . . . their name, nationality, age, address and whatever else is on the RFID chip. . .It means that pickpockets, kidnappers and terrorists can easily - and surreptitiously - pick Americans or nationals of other participating countries out of a crowd."

http://www.currentconcerns.ch/archive/2004/05/20040504.php