{"id":978,"date":"2007-08-09T02:40:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T02:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/id-card-prints-flawed\/978\/"},"modified":"2007-08-09T02:40:30","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T02:40:30","slug":"id-card-prints-flawed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/id-card-prints-flawed\/","title":{"rendered":"ID Card Prints Flawed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\" class=\"add-linkout\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/news\/tm_headline=id-card-prints-flawed%26method=full%26objectid=19586573%26siteid=66633-name_page.html\">DR<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"add-linkout\">THOUSANDS of people will be unable to use the new ID cards to prove who they are, an expert has warned.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"add-linkout\">Speaking as the Government publish a report on using biometric data on visas, passports and ID cards, Professor John Daugman has warned the failure rate will be massive.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"add-linkout\">The Cambridge expert said plans to use just fingerprints on the cards to check identities will lead to one in 1000 giving a &#8220;false match&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"add-linkout\">It will mean when people try to prove their identities to police or border control staff the details of someone else will flash up on the screen.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"add-linkout\">Shadow home secretary David Davis said: &#8220;Gordon Brown pretends ID cards will secure our identities but tens of thousands of people could be falsely accused of not being who they are.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DR\u00a0 THOUSANDS of people will be unable to use the new ID cards to prove who they are, an expert has warned. Speaking as the Government publish a report on using biometric data on visas, passports and ID cards, Professor John Daugman has warned the failure rate will be massive. The Cambridge expert said plans [&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-978","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\/978","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=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}