Over the weekend, prompted by a message from @wendyg, I had another go at checking whether my details are on 118800, the UK online directory of mobile phone numbers which has excited so much comment over the past few months.…
I blogged back in February about Chris Paget’s successful attempts to read US-issued RFID credentials while simply driving past their owners… so I was a little surprised to see the same “news” cropping up in this article from Saturday’s LA…
Apologies for the rather opaque title of this post. In its expanded form, it would read something like this: “IP addresses: are they personally identifiable information within the meaning of the law, or not?”… but that would be a bit…
Interesting piece here about Cory Doctorow’s search for a solution to the problem of what to do with your “digital legacy”. Now that so much of our lives is lived/captured/stored digitally, it’s far more likely that our executors and relatives…
Home Secretary Alan Johnson has taken advantage of his recent arrival to announce a change of policy: ID Cards will now not be compulsory… for anyone other than foreign nationals working in the UK. Though, if I remember correctly, it…
A few years ago I was given a very good piece of advice about technologists expressing a view on matters of policy: don’t. “Think of three layers”, was the suggestion of my older and wiser colleague: “a bottom layer of…
Posted on June 18, 2009 I promised some more notes from the recent LSE workshop I attended on Identity in the Information Society (IDIS), and have finally got around to it. The opening keynote of the workshop was given by…
Posted June 18, 2009 There’s a nice, succinct article in the FT today (also available online here) reading the runes on the Home Office’s contractual arrangements for parts of the ID Cards scheme. At the heart of the story is…
Posted June 16, 2009 Dear Home Secretary, Welcome to your new post. I hope your advisers have put in your in-tray a copy of the very lucid analysis of the UK’s National Identity Scheme which Toby Stevens has written here…
Posted on June 15, 2009 One of the points I was happy to have been able to make at last Tuesday’s beingdigital event was this: privacy is not about keeping all my data to myself, it’s about disclosing it, but…
