{"id":4775,"date":"2008-10-30T18:24:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T17:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4775"},"modified":"2008-10-30T18:24:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T17:24:51","slug":"civilian-id-cards-will-not-thwart-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/surveillance-big-brother\/civilian-id-cards-will-not-thwart-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilian ID cards &#8216;will not thwart terrorists&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"articlestandfirst\">Claims that identity cards will protect against terrorism are &#8216;absolute bunkum&#8217; &#8211; says an expert at the government&#8217;s intelligence agency.\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p class=\"article\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/article.html?Civilian_ID_cards_will_not_thwart_terrorists&amp;in_article_id=379860&amp;in_page_id=34&amp;in_a_source=\">JOHN HIGGINSON<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">The \u00a34billion card scheme is really part of Labour&#8217;s agenda to cut costs and bureaucracy by ensuring public bodies can share information, said Harvey Mattinson, a senior consultant at spy station GCHQ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">&#8216;You cannot share information without identity authentication,&#8217; he told the Society of IT Management&#8217;s annual conference. &#8216;We have got to get this right because it is stopping us doing our business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">&#8216;We need biometric as well as biographical data. We will have to build up the information on the chip.&#8217; Mr Mattinson was addressing repeated claims by home secretary Jacqui Smith that ID cards would help thwart terror attacks by making it harder for criminals to acquire multiple aliases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">Shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve said: &#8216;Far from strengthening our security, ID cards are an expensive white elephant that risk making us less &#8211; not more &#8211; safe.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">The cards are to be introduced for foreign nationals from next month before a general roll-out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claims that identity cards will protect against terrorism are &#8216;absolute bunkum&#8217; &#8211; says an expert at the government&#8217;s intelligence agency.\u00a0 JOHN HIGGINSON\u00a0 The \u00a34billion card scheme is really part of Labour&#8217;s agenda to cut costs and bureaucracy by ensuring public bodies can share information, said Harvey Mattinson, a senior consultant at spy station GCHQ. &#8216;You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1614,1615],"tags":[37,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-4775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surveillance-big-brother","7":"category-uk-news","8":"tag-id-cards","9":"tag-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}