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11 October 2007 16:34

Home Office Minister responsible for Identity adds more power to her arm

And yes that mouthful really is Home Office Minister Meg Hillier's full title. This blog has constantly warned against the dangers of ID Cards with biometrics, the National Identity Register (NIR) and the sharing of data by government departments . Now Read More...
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06 September 2007 09:06

DNA - the Sedley medley

Yesterday's news stories on Lord Justice Sedley's suggestion that the state of the UK DNA databases - currently biased against UK ethnic minorities in terms of its coverage - was indefensible and could only be set to rights by including every UK citizen Read More...
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05 September 2007 12:34

DNA-UK brings me back to earth and on the Blog!

OK - I'm back from Africa and back on the case. The Open Rights Group (ORG) began today's post: This morning, the news media are reporting a startling recommendation by one of the UK’s most senior judges: that the Police National DNA Database (NDNAD) Read More...
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01 August 2007 08:44

Identity cards: "broken" and now "doomed to fail"

I reported in February the item on broken biometric passports in The Register , which noted that "we were told by our consultants that the use of current facial recognition technology with two dimensional images (as is the case for ePassports) is not Read More...
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27 July 2007 09:24

Schools and biometric data

The Times Online (July 24) had a brief news item: Pupils fingerprinted Schools will be able to fingerprint pupils for the dinner queue, library and registration, in accordance with data protection guidance issued yesterday. Jim Knight, the Schools Minister, Read More...
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