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Fears over identity card claims
• STATE officials will have the most detailed picture of your private life, including your use of banking, commercial and public services.
Their proposed “National Identity Register” (NIR) database will store details of every time your ID is checked.
Biometrics won’t guarantee their security. A group of security experts recently described government claims about the technology as “a fairy-tale view”. And the idea that ID cards can prevent illegal immigration is absurd.
They don’t on the continent. By making unrealistic claims for ID cards, the government will again fail to deliver on some real problems, such as benefit fraud.
It can only make things worse – a hugely invasive database combined with widespread data-sharing will compromise everyone’s privacy, and vastly worsen the risk of identity fraud.
Civil servants have lost personal details of 25 million people (including those whose identity they were supposed to be guarding from criminals).
PHIL BOOTH
National Co-ordinator, NO2ID
Box 41219 Crawford Street
London W1H 1PJ
www.no2id.net
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