In my recent post draft principles for the UK identity assurance programme I said if people were interested, I could post more detail of the thoughts that
Category: identity
draft principles for the UK identity assurance programme
The snappily named “Identity Assurance Programme Privacy and Consumer Group” has been busy for some time now, debating and distilling a set of privacy-based principles
Visualising privacy
Privacy seems to have an image problem: it seems acceptable for it to be sidelined and sometimes even ridiculed in public. We hear the Stalinesque
Reinventing wheels …?
Imagine this: a government service that enables you to notify a change of address once. Or a government service that enables you to set up
Biometrics: enabling guilty men to go free? Further adventures from the law of unintended consequences
Dateline: the near future Setting: the Old Bailey. A tense, invitation-only event. A spectacle of the kind that London has made its own since long
You say (paper) identity, I say (digital) identity
So identity is back mainstreaming in the news once more from Bill Goodwin at Computer Weekly to Kim Cameron’s podcast on Idealgovernment, which is provoking a healthy mix of
Scientific and technological evidence — their impact on public policy
An interesting day yesterday providing evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee inquiry into how the Government makes use of scientific and technological evidence.
Westminster eForum — implementing ID cards
The text below is a copy of my speech delivered today at the Westminster e-Forum session on implementing ID Cards (keynote speaker Andy Burnham, MP,
Happy birthday. Happy 5th birthday to be precise
It’s hard to believe that 5 years have passed since the UK Government’s Government Gateway was launched back in the long, dark, cold days of January 2001.
What future for biometrics? (And our DNA)?
The Personal Genome Project (PGP) raises some interesting issues that could impact our thinking around other identity issues – including the ongoing debate in the UK about
Learning from others
As the UK National Identity Card debate continues, there is considerable worldwide technological expertise in this field that can help us ensure the proposals are
The UK National Identity Card
Oct 18 2005, the UK National Identity Card The text below is the full version of my article that appears in today’s “The Scotsman”. A
new tech observations from the UK (ntouk) 