According to The Sunday Times, Tony Blair’s flagship identity cards scheme is set to fail and may not be introduced for a generation, according to leaked Whitehall e-mails from the senior officials responsible for the multi-billion-pound project. They helpfully reproduce the email exchange as well. No doubt their authors will be aspiring to a considerably [...]
The LSE identity card team has come up with another report: On top of its earlier recommendations, we now recommend that the project be moved to a department with greater experience in complex IT systems because of failures by the Home Office to incorporate feedback into its designs. We recommend the Treasury as the primary [...]
One of the more interesting breakout workstreams was on ‘the trust cluster’ – which unfortunately was not the one I was in. I did though have a very interesting conversation with one of the presenters in that group. Malcolm Crompton, who was until recently Australia’s privacy commissioner and is now the MD of an outfit [...]
Checking a person against a biometric is a way of establishing their identity. So checking them against two biometrics ought to establish their identity with greater confidence. Wrong. As it turns out, in some cases, using a second biometric can significantly increase the error rate: Suppose weak Biometric 1 operates with both of its error [...]