{"id":1977,"date":"2007-12-12T16:54:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T16:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/do-we-trust-government-on-id-cards\/1977\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T16:54:33","slug":"do-we-trust-government-on-id-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/do-we-trust-government-on-id-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we trust government on ID cards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"main1\">Identity cards will have to be &#8220;reassessed&#8221; in the wake of the child benefits fiasco, a Government minister has said. (Really).<\/p>\n<p>The data protection minister, said the loss of the personal details of 25million was &#8220;deplorable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said a review will be carried out into the way officials store and use data &#8211; putting the future of the \u00a35.6billion ID cards scheme under review.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><!-- DIV added for task NFT00001396 --><a name=\"continueNews\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none\"><\/a><span id=\"main2\">The plans call for a database storing 49 pieces of personal information on every citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Leading academics have rounded on the Government&#8217;s &#8220;fairytale view&#8221; of the technology needed to make the scheme work.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to MPs, Professor Ross Anderson and Dr Richard Clayton warned lives would be ruined if information from the ID database went missing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once lost, it would be impossible to issue a person with new fingerprints. One cannot change one&#8217;s fingers as one can a bank account. Adding more data, like fingerprints, will make records even more valuable to fraudsters and thieves when &#8211; not if &#8211; they are lost and leaked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Can we trust the Government to look after the data?<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;d like to ask, who will they be sharing this data with?<\/p>\n<p>DANNY STOWELL<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identity cards will have to be &#8220;reassessed&#8221; in the wake of the child benefits fiasco, a Government minister has said. (Really). The data protection minister, said the loss of the personal details of 25million was &#8220;deplorable&#8221;. He said a review will be carried out into the way officials store and use data &#8211; putting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1614],"tags":[37],"class_list":{"0":"post-1977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surveillance-big-brother","7":"tag-id-cards"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}