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This one's for the Prof…

I recently attended a very engaging lecture at the London School of Economics (LSE) by Prof David Lyon – who spoke about “Identity as Surveillance – Security, Surveillance and Citizenship”. I do hope he subsequently saw this article from the…

The relentless march of progress

March 2006 – UK introduces RFID-enabled, ICAO-compliant ‘e-passports’; March 2007 – Adam Laurie demonstrates ability to unlock e-passport chip data for ‘read’ access; August 2008 – Jeroen van Beek demonstrates ability to clone e-passport chip and implant bogus images; August…

An Open Letter

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…