{"id":2660,"date":"2008-03-13T13:13:39","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T13:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/experts-wary-over-id-card-plan\/2660\/"},"modified":"2008-03-13T13:13:39","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T13:13:39","slug":"experts-wary-over-id-card-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/human-rights\/experts-wary-over-id-card-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts wary over ID card plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Home Office slows ID card rollout as independent Treasury study recommends fast implementation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s failure to take on board the recommendations of independent reports on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ips.gov.uk\/identity\/scheme.asp\">national identity card scheme<\/a> may lead to faults and extra cost, warn experts.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, home secretary Jacqui Smith announced plans for a slower rollout of the \u00a35.4bn ID cards programme, with the government retaining control of the national identity register.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"185\" src=\"http:\/\/ivory.vnunet.com\/images\/politics\/id-card-finger-print\/medium.jpg\" height=\"110\" style=\"width: 185px; height: 110px\" \/>But in a <a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk\/media\/6\/7\/identity_assurance060308.pdf\">Treasury-commissioned report<\/a>, also released last week, former HBOS chief executive Sir James Crosby recommends a fundamentally different, consumer-led approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur identity belongs to us, no one else,\u201d said Crosby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe potential of any mass ID system such as ID cards lies in the extent to which it is created, by consumers for consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are many reasons why the government may have ignored the Crosby report \u00ad which has been delayed by almost a year and was released through the Treasury web site \u00ad said Eric Woods, analyst at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ovum.com\/\">Ovum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrosby\u2019s recommendations on reaching a critical mass of card users quickly were always going to be unlikely due to the political and technical realities of the scheme,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith has delayed compulsory adoption of ID cards when renewing passports amid widespread criticism of the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby\u2019s other recommendations \u00ad which were ignored by the government \u00ad include:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; ID cards should be free.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The scheme should be subject to review by the information commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Information should not be passed on to the police from the national identity register.<\/p>\n<p>The government denies any Whitehall disagreement over ID cards. \u201cThe home secretary has talked to Sir James Crosby on each point of his report \u00ad there is no disagreement between the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homeoffice.gov.uk\/\">Home Office<\/a> and the Treasury over the scheme,\u201d said a home office spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>The government previously ignored the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/collections\/pressAndInformationOffice\/newsAndEvents\/archives\/2005\/IDCard_FinalReport.htm\">recommendations of a London School of Economics (LSE) report<\/a> in 2005, which said the scheme could cost \u00a319.2bn, said Ian Angell, professor of information systems at LSE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government only listens to what it wants to hear \u00ad current proposals are technically unsound and do not have public confidence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vnunet.com\/computing\/news\/2211892\/experts-wary-id-card-plan-3889137\">Tom Young<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Office slows ID card rollout as independent Treasury study recommends fast implementation The government\u2019s failure to take on board the recommendations of independent reports on the national identity card scheme may lead to faults and extra cost, warn experts. 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