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purplecthulhu at 11:15am on 15/08/2009
purplecthulhu at 11:15am on 15/08/2009In a fairly comprehensive review of trials of various biometrics intended for ID card use, ElReg skewers the technical flaws in the proposed UK National Identity System.
Bottom line:
'Biometrics cannot underpin the NIS and so, by IPS’s logic, the NIS cannot underpin the “interactions and transactions between individuals, public services and businesses”. Safeguarding Identity is a false prospectus – no properly managed stock exchange would allow its shares to be listed. The NIS is guaranteed to fail.'
Even if you think that ID Cards are a good idea, the technical challenges to a biometric validated system are so severe that the system will be unworkable.
Lets save the billions that such a flawed system will cost, alongside the inconvenience and misery it will cause innocents caught up in it, and kill the thing right now.
Bottom line:
'Biometrics cannot underpin the NIS and so, by IPS’s logic, the NIS cannot underpin the “interactions and transactions between individuals, public services and businesses”. Safeguarding Identity is a false prospectus – no properly managed stock exchange would allow its shares to be listed. The NIS is guaranteed to fail.'
Even if you think that ID Cards are a good idea, the technical challenges to a biometric validated system are so severe that the system will be unworkable.
Lets save the billions that such a flawed system will cost, alongside the inconvenience and misery it will cause innocents caught up in it, and kill the thing right now.
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On the understanding of science, we have a problem in that we consistently elect arts graduates to run the country.
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Bets?
(this is HO policy, and has been for decades; I doubt muchly that Cameron's lot will end up with any more of a backbone than the current shower when faced with following up on that "indication")
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