Ian GrantOs povos têm que dão a permissão explícita para que o governo alcance seus detalhes pessoais prendidos em várias bases de dados antes que possam começar a cartão de identidade nacional, Ministro do cartão do ID Megohm mais montanhoso MPs dito esta semana.

Mais montanhoso dava a evidência à casa de terras comuns' Os casos Home selecionam o comitê nos arranjos da segurança para registo nacional controverso da identidade e cartão de identidade nacional associado.

Haveria duas bases de dados, uma para dados biometric (impressões digitais, imagens facial e possivelmente mais tarde, varreduras da íris) e dados biographic (nome, história do endereço, número etc. do seguro nacional), um dito mais montanhoso.

Um spokesman do escritório Home disse que quando uma pessoa se aplica para um cartão do ID, toda a informação a ser gravada no registo nacional da identidade estará verificada de encontro a um número de origens de dados do público ou do setor confidencial para ajudar verificar a identidade da pessoa. “Isto construirá em mais melhor prática existente em processar aplicações do passport,” disse.

Justo sobre um ano há plantas deixadas cair governo para construir o NIR do risco. Opted usar os sistemas computatorizados do Immigration armazenar dados biometric e o departamento da base de dados do trabalho & do seguro nacional da pensão para armazenar dados biographic.

Uns menos de 100 povos ditos mais montanhosos terão o acesso à série de dados inteira de um registro de NIR. Cada acesso a um registro teria uma fuga de exame, e alcança-a aos campos de alguns dados no registro requereria dois authenticated simultâneos e credentialed usuários.

Todas as transferências dos dados seriam cifradas, disse. “Não haverá nenhum disco que voa ao redor (com dados unencrypted neles),” ela disse. Esta era uma referência ao perda pelo rendimento & pelos costumes de HM o ano passado de dois discos compactos que contêm os detalhes pessoais e bancários de 25 milhão reivindicadores do benefício da criança. Mais montanhoso admitido que o incident teve “amolgou” a confiança do pessoa na abilidade do governo de proteger dados pessoais sensíveis.

Um dito mais montanhoso esperou que o uso o mais externo do NIR seria confirmar que a identidade de uma pessoa estêve registada. Muito raramente, e então somente às agências IPS examinadas para a segurança, promoveria detalhes fosse dado, disse.

People would be entitled to ask the “identity custodian” who had looked at their records, she said. There were no plans to follow committee chairman Keith Vaz’s suggestion that IPS provide a “Google Alert” to warn people when someone looked up their data.

She said people don’t expect the credit vetting agencies to tell them when someone checks up on them, nor did the Passport Office when someone verified a passport’s validity. IPS was taking the same approach.

Duncan Hine, who is in charge of security arrangements for the NIR and ID card, said security on the biometric database would be the highest possible and certified by government, but security around the biographic data would be less stringent.

Hillier said that the procurement process now underway should be completed by the end of the year with roll-out of ID cards starting early in 2009.

Nick Heath

The latest government ID card plans have revealed people will face fines of up to £1,000 for skipping biometric scans.

Penalties ranging from £125 for not notifying the government of the loss of an ID card, to £250 for not applying for a card or missing an appointment for fingerprint and facial scans, were revealed in the Home Office consultation papers.

The fines would apply to foreign nationals entering or living in the UK, who will be required to have ID cards from November — ahead of the cards’ introduction for UK citizens next year.

Foreigners persistently failing to apply or turn up for scans face a charge of up to £1,000 but there would be a reduction in fine of up to £100 for anyone who could prove extenuating circumstances for non-compliance.

Any foreign national with limited leave to stay in the UK failing to apply or turn up for a scan three times in five years would have their remaining leave curtailed.

The Home Office documents predict the cards will be fitted with a “tamperproof chip” containing encrypted information, which would include the holder’s face, two fingerprints, personal details and immigration status.

Airport union Unite recently called for consultation on airport workers being among the first groups in the UK to need ID cards.

The widespread rollout to UK citizens, known as ‘Borders phase II’, is now slated to begin in 2012 - two years later than indicated in an earlier government action plan.

Critics of the scheme said the perceived two-year slip in the widespread rollout of the cards is another sign of wavering support among Gordon Brown’s government for ID cards. Doubts in the scheme were further exacerbated by Accenture and BAE Systems pulling out of the procurement process to build the ID card computer system.

Ian Grant

The government is close to releasing a critical report about the controversial £4.3bn ID-card plan.The report, now nearly a year behind schedule, is expected to spell out the government’s options on how it can best move forward with plans to provide everyone in Britain with a universally accepted form of identity.

Gordon Brown commissioned Sir James Crosby in July 2006 to produce a report on how the government and private sector can work together on identity management. The original deadline was Easter 2007.

Crosby chairs the Public-Private Forum on Identity Management, which drew input from the City of London Police, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, HM Revenue & Customs, the Identity and Passport Service of the Home Office and the Serious Organised Crime Agency. From the private sector, the forum heard from Barclays Bank, Boots the Chemist, British Airways, Compass Group plc, Linklaters and O2. It also heard evidence from civil society organisations such as No2ID.

Its role was to review the current and emerging use of identity management in the private and public sectors and identify best practices, consider how the public and private sectors can work together, harness the best identity technology to maximise efficiency and effectiveness, and produce a preliminary report for the chancellor of the exchequer and the Ministerial Committee on identity management by Easter 2007.

It explored how the public and private sectors might converge their respective ID management programmes, how consumers could be “encouraged” to look after their data better, and any legal barriers to sharing identity information between private and public sector bodies.

The London Assembly has called on the Government to abandon controversial plans to introduce ID cards and instead spend London’s share of the costs of the proposed scheme on tackling crime.

Jenny Jones AM, who proposed the motion, said:

“If the ID card scheme goes ahead it will lead to the creation of a massive database full of personal data and biometric information. There have been several incidents lately where public sector organisations have lost or misplaced huge amounts of personal data, making the information contained in an ID card database an accident waiting to happen. The money would be far better spent reducing crime in the capital.”

Bob Blackman AM, who seconded the motion, said:

“The proposals for ID cards are intrusive and serve no purpose beyond making people more vulnerable to having their personal data lost, sold or abused. If this type of comprehensive personal information were to fall into the wrong hands – which is a real possibility – it would be the average person who has done nothing wrong who would suffer most.”

The motion in full reads as follows:

“This Assembly expresses its alarm over recent government failures to protect the personal data of citizens, including many Londoners, and over major failures with government computer systems. It considers that these failures demonstrate further the huge risks of introducing a National ID Register, involving a massive accumulation of personal information, together with biometric ID cards.

The Assembly calls on the government to recognise these risks and abandon its proposals, including the introduction of ID cards by coercion as part of the passport and driving licence application process. It reiterates its call to government to redirect London’s share of the cost of the scheme to effective crime prevention and policing measures.”

By John Oates

British people are maintaining steady levels of disbelief over goverment claims about ID cards, according to official Home Office research.

Lobby group No2ID picked up on the research this week, but a spokesman for the IPS said it had been published on ips.gov.uk in November. Google has a cache from earlier this month.

The survey asked people how important proposed benefits of the ID card would be - 74 per cent chose “disrupting the activities of terrorists and organised criminals”, but 23 per cent of people thought this was “slightly believable” and 11 per cent thought it was “not at all believable”. Seven per cent of respondents did not recognise any of the eight benefits they were offered to choose between.

Researchers from Taylor Nelson Sofres summarised views as: “Across the board, full buy-in and belief in the schemes [sic] ability to deliver the proposed benefits is weak.”

Phil Booth, NO2ID’s National Coordinator, said: “After five years of trying to get people to like ID cards, even the Home Office’s own research says that only one in four believe they’ll do what they’re claimed to. And this is supposed to be positive spin. It’s both tragedy and farce.

“Mr Brown - if he’s in control at all - should shut down the ID empire-builders before this particular legacy of Blunkett and Blair gets any more embarrassing.”

The survey also noted that: “Interestingly prevention of illegal immigration is more “top-of-mind” than it was in wave 1 which is likely to reflect media coverage at the time interviewing was being conducted.”

The Tracking Research talked to people in October, the latest update should be published in the next month - we’ll bring you more belief-beggaring government research as we get it.

It will be interesting to see what impact the recent round of data losses by the UK government has on its believability quotient.

The survey used a sample of 2,052 people weighted to reflect the UK population.

The survey report is available from this page as a pdf.®

Anthony Wells

A new ICM poll for the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust suggests 50% of people now think ID cards would be a bad idea, with 47% thinking them a good idea.

The wording in the question was the same as used in the series of polls done for No2ID by ICM, so it is directly comparable to previous questions - back in September before the loss of benefit data the same question was showing 54% in favour and only 42% against, though it should be pointed out that the opposition isn’t unprecedented, a poll in July 2007 found a majority against cards.

Despite the drop in support for ID cards and the recent data loss incidents, the public still seem positive about other proposals whee data security would be an issue - 51% said they would be comfortable with the government building a database of everyone in the country including their fingerprints (48% were uncomfortable), 67% were happy with the government collecting travel information on British citizens going in and out of the country (31% were uncomfortable), 53% were comfortable with the idea of the government making a database with information on every child in the UK (45% uncomfortable). Only with the idea of allowing government departments to share information provided to one of them to others were a majority (52%) uncomfortable.

By Nick Heath

Support for the UK’s national ID card programme continues to plummet as one quarter of people say they are strongly opposed to the scheme.

According to the ICM poll, 25 per cent of those surveyed thought it was a “very bad” idea - up from 17 per cent in September last year.

Opponents of the ID card scheme said the survey of just over 1,000 people, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, showed the government would be “unable to impose” the cards on the population.

But while 50 per cent said the cards were a bad idea in the ICM poll, 47 per cent of those questioned still thought they were a good idea. And 12 per cent of that group thought they were a ‘very good’ idea.

Phil Booth, national co-ordinator with pressure group NO2ID, said: “It shows that more people don’t want ID cards than do, as is clearly the case across the population.”

He said: “The number of people who look like they will refuse to have one has gone up massively, a quarter of the population are vehemently against them.”

The idea of the government taking data submitted for one use and sharing it between departments also made 52 per cent of respondents uncomfortable.

The poll found the majority support creating a separate database about every child in the UK, creating a central identity register and collecting personal travel details on everyone coming in and out of the UK.

The first ID cards will be introduced for foreign nationals by the end of this year.

The widespread rollout to UK citizens, known as ‘Borders phase II’, is now slated to begin in 2012 - two years later than indicated in an earlier government action plan.

National identity cards will be given to British citizens two years later than planned, it has emerged.

Leaked Home Office documents given to the Conservatives show the planned rollout of ID cards to British citizens has been delayed until 2010.

It was originally planned British citizens should be given ID cards from 2010, with foreign nationals subject to the legislation later this year.

Shadow home secretary David Davis said the delay showed the planned ID card scheme was “in the intensive care ward”.

Gordon Brown is reportedly less enthusiastic about ID cards than his predecessor Tony Blair, who promised to include legislation for compulsory ID cards in Labour’s next election manifesto.

Earlier this month, Mr Brown appeared to show more tentative support for compulsory ID cards, describing it as simply “an option” and pointing out it would be subject to further parliamentary approval.

It is thought the delay has also been prompted by security concerns as ministers grapple with the logistics of gathering and safely storing vast amounts of data.

Shadow immigration minister Damian Green told the BBC: “It’s clear that there are enormous practical difficulties in putting 50 different pieces of personal information including addresses of 60 million British citizens plus lots of foreigners into a single database.

“I think the reality is just beginning to bite ministers on this, so this delay is the first sign of reality intruding, let’s hope there are more to come.”

The leaked Home Office documents show Borders Phase 1, where ID cards will be rolled out to foreign nationals, is set to begin this year. From 2009 cards will also be issued to people “in positions of trust”.

But Borders Phase 2, when the cards will be introduced to all British Citizens, is schedule to begin in 2012, two years later than previously thought.

An Identity and Passport Service spokesman said: “We have always said that the sheme will be rolled out incrementally.”

But Mr Davis said the delay was intended to stop ID cards becoming an issue at the next election, planned for 2009 or 2010.

http://www.politics.co.uk

J. Mark Lytle

If you’re already concerned by the gradual erosion of our personal privacy in the 21st century, then the latest report from a pair of privacy watchdogs might make uncomfortable reading.

Privacy International from the UK and the Electronic Privacy Information Center in the US regularly assess how nations treat the rights of their citizens to live without government intervention. According to the 2007 report, both Britain and America are rock bottom “endemic surveillance societies.”

ID cards a risk

Not only does the UK have far more CCTV surveillance cameras than any other country, but it also has suffered a rash of electronic data leaks and placed its citizens even more at risk with plans for a national identity card.

Across the Atlantic, US residents continue to lose freedoms in the so-called ‘war on terror’ that has seen legalised spying introduced through warrantless phone taps and email snooping by the state.

Should you wish to continue an existence, whether online or off, that is free from fear of intrusion, then the report suggests Greece - the only country deemed to have adequate privacy-protection safeguards in place.

tech.co.uk

Poll shows growing opposition to ID cards over data fears

· 25% now strongly against their use, says ICM survey
· Majority concerned about sharing of personal details

Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Wednesday February 6, 2008
The Guardian

The number of people strongly opposed to the introduction of a national identity card scheme has risen sharply, according to the results of an ICM poll to be published today.Those campaigning against ID cards said last night that the poll, with results showing that 25% of the public are deeply opposed to the idea, raises the prospect that the potential number of those likely to refuse to register for the card has risen. If the poll’s findings were reflected in the wider population, as many as 10 million people may be expected to refuse to comply.

The ICM survey also shows that a majority of the British people say they are “uncomfortable” with the idea that personal data provided to the government for one purpose should be shared between all Whitehall-run public services.

The poll, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, shows that British public opinion is deeply split over the introduction of identity cards, with 50% against the idea and 47% in favour.

Recent disputes over the further delays to have hit the project have strengthened opposition to the scheme, with those who think it is “a very bad” idea rising from 17% last September to 25% now. This compares with only 12% who think that pressing ahead with ID cards, which will cost around £93 per person when combined with a passport, is a “very good idea”.

In the aftermath of the government’s recent embarrassing losses of confidential personal data, public opinion appears to have turned sharply against the idea of sharing information within Whitehall and the creeping introduction of the “Big Brother” state.

A majority - 52% - say they feel uncomfortable with allowing “personal information that is provided to one government department to be shared between all government departments that provide public services”.

However, the poll does show that clear support exists among the public for setting up a central identity register and collecting personal travel details on everyone coming in and out of Britain. It also reveals some support for the creation of a separate database about every child, including details about their parents and carers.

Phil Booth, of the No2id campaign, said: “With a quarter of the country deeply opposed to ID cards, and a clear majority reluctant to have their personal information shared even for public services, the government needs to fundamentally rethink its database state.

“These figures suggest that millions will simply refuse to comply.”

He said the results showed that between 10 million and 15 million could refuse to register for the card.

The Liberal Democrats’ home affairs spokesman, Chris Huhne, said that public opinion was moving sharply away from the government’s ID card scheme as more people understood how intrusive it was going to be, and the more they saw that officials were unable to keep confidential and personal data secure.

Huhne said: “These polling figures are a body-blow to the government’s hopes of introducing ID cards and the associated personal database, as they suggest a large pool of people who may refuse to cooperate.”

Leaked Home Office documents suggested last month that the planned large-scale voluntary rollout of national identity cards for British nationals had been delayed by two years until beyond the next general election.

The first ID cards will be introduced in December this year for foreign nationals resident in the country. It will follow a pilot scheme to be run in London from April to test the technology. The prime minister, Gordon Brown, has confirmed that legislation will have to be introduced before it becomes compulsory for British nationals to register for the ID cards scheme.

· The ICM poll interviewed a represent-ative sample of 1,008 people between February 1 and 3, 2008

Leaked UK gov’t doc reveals plan to “coerce” Brits into national ID register

 
Phil from the UK anti-ID-register group NO2ID sends in this nugget — note the call to action there. We’ve got a sensitive government document revealing the British government’s plan to trick us into a database state and we need as many copies as possible, as quickly as possible!

If you mirror this document, please add a link to it in the comments for the post.

UK campaigners NO2ID this morning enlisted the help of bloggers across the world to spread a leaked government document describing how the British government intends to go about “coercing” its citizens onto a National Identity Register. The ‘ID card’ is revealed as little more than a cover to create a official dossier and trackable ID for every UK resident - creating what NO2ID calls ‘the database state’.NO2ID’s national coordinator, Phil Booth, exhorted bloggers, freedom lovers and anyone who gives a damn about personal privacy to mirror the annotated document on their site.

“The charade is over. While ministers try to bamboozle the British public with fairytales about fingerprints, officials are plotting how to dupe and bully the population into surrendering control of their own identities.”

“Biometric ID cards are a sham; a magician’s flourish to cover the biggest identity fraud there has ever been.”

1.2MB PDF Link (mirror this file!)

By ROBERT BROOKS

A CATALOGUE of errors involving sensitive personal data has led MP Alan Beith to back calls for the Government to scrap its identity card plans.

He says the law to make carrying a card compulsory will become a “bureaucratic nightmare”, which won’t prevent illegal working or help stop crime or terrorism

As chairman of the House of Commons’ Justice Committee, Mr Beith has heard a great deal of evidence on the protection of data and its safe storage and retrieval.

He welcomed Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg’s publication of figures showing that 37 million pieces of personal information on UK citizens were lost in 2007, mostly by the Government.

Mr Beith said: “The expensive identity cards scheme is based on the Government storing large amounts of information about each one of us on a central database. But in 2007 the Government stumbled from one data loss crisis to another.

“The worst example came in November when the Government lost the personal details of all 25 million families with children.

“That has put the privacy of every family in Alnwick at risk.

“The dangers of putting so much information about every citizen in the UK into one central database are clear to everyone except, it seems, the Government.”

He added: “”I am very pleased that new Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg is leading the battle to end the ID cards scheme. Liberal Democrats in Alnwick are right behind him.

“The plan to make everyone carry a piece of plastic should be buried before it ends up as another expensive Government fiasco.”

Withdrawal of two systems integrators adds to problems for increasingly controversial national identity scheme.

Miya Knights

Two leading systems integrators (SIs) have withdrawn from the shortlist of bidders looking to run the National Identity Scheme (NIS) framework procurement programme.

BAE Systems and Accenture both confirmed late yesterday they had abandoned plans to run the project introducing ID cards for UK citizen, leaving CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM, Thales and Steria to battle it out for the framework projects.

The move means both SIs will miss out on the £5.3 billion allocated for the scheme, which will be used in the first instance to pay for establishing and managing registration processes linked to a biometric database.

BAE Systems said in a statement: “We withdrew because, at this stage of the competition, our assessment is that our bid would not contain every element necessary to deliver to the customer’s requirement.” But it did say it would continue to monitor the scheme “with interest”.

Shazia Ejaz, Accenture spokeswoman said: “The Home Office is in the process of pulling together a list of companies that will then be eligible to bid for future work packages, which together will deliver the National Identity Scheme. On this occasion, we have decided not to seek to be selected for this ‘framework’.”

Like BAE, she refused to be drawn further on its reasons for withdrawing, but instead added that Accenture remains committed to work on other government projects including the National Health Service (NHS) electronic patient records and picture archiving communications systems (PACS), a customer information system for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the electronic borders programme.

The withdrawals news follows reports earlier this week from the Conservative Party that the ID cards scheme had been delayed by at least three years, until after the next election.

‘Coercion’ tactics in secret memo

By Tom Latchem

Young drivers are to be FORCED to get ID cards when they apply for their first licences.

The People has seen sensational leaked Home Office documents revealing the secret plan.

It says newdrivers and those applying for fresh passports will be “coerced” into getting the controversial identity cards.

PM Gordon Brown has always said the scheme will be voluntary unless Parliament decides otherwise.

But last night shadow Home Secretary David Davis stormed: “This is an outrageous plan.

The Government has seen their ID card proposals stagger from shambles to shambles.

“Now they plan to use coercion in a desperate attempt to bolster a failed policy.”

Civil rights group Liberty said: “This memo confirms that compulsion is the ultimate ambition of this scheme.And it can be achieved by stealth even without the need for further parliamentary debate.”

The secret document from the Identity and Passport Service is headed: “Options analysis - outcome.”

It says: “Various forms of coercion, such as designation of the application process for identity documents issued by UK ministers (eg passports) are an option to stimulate applications in a manageable way.

“There are advantages to designation of documents associated with particular target groups, eg young people who may be applying for their first driving licence.” The report says “universal compulsion should not be used unless absolutely necessary” because of the ID controversy.

Phil Booth of pressure group No2ID said: “This makes ID cards even more devastating and scary than we thought.

“I thank The People for bringing this to the nation’s attention.”

AHome Office spokeswoman said: “We do not comment on leaked documents.

“But it’s right our first priority is to consider where ID cards can be of the greatest benefit.” Compulsory cards for foreigners living here begins this year. They will be available to Brits who want one from 2009.

Last week it was revealed students will be targeted in 2010 in a plan linked to new bank accounts and student loans.

But a compulsory scheme is unlikely until 2012 after the next election because Mr Brown knows he would never get it past MPs. Many want the scheme dumped after the scandal of personal data losses, including the details of 25 million child benefit claimants.

Anthea Lipsett
EducationGuardian.co.uk

Students will be “blackmailed” into holding identity cards in order to apply for student loans, the Tories have warned.

According to Home Office documents leaked to the Conservative party last night, those applying for student loans will be forced to hold identity cards to get the funding from 2010.

Anyone aged 16 or over will be expected to obtain a card - costing up to £100 - to open a bank account or apply for a student loan.

The document says: “We should issue ID cards to young people to assist them as they open their first bank account, take out a student loan, etc.”

The government had planned to start issuing the ID cards to people applying for a passport from 2010, but confidential documents confirm that the scheme will be delayed to at least 2012.

The biometric cards are due to be introduced for foreign nationals later this year, with the first expected to be issued to UK citizens on a voluntary basis from 2009.

From next year, they will also be issued to people in “positions of trust” such as airport workers.

The revelations have led to concerns that the government is planning to collect the fingerprints and other biometric details of more than two million young people entering higher education each year by stealth.

Shadow immigration minister Damian Green called the plans “straightforward blackmail” to bolster “a failing policy”.

“This is an outrageous plan. The government has seen its ID cards proposals stagger from shambles to shambles. They are clearly trying to introduce them by stealth.”