ID cards: dicing with your data
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
A private sector group of technology experts has warned of the security risks of the Government’s ID card scheme.
The report, published today by the Information Assurance Advisory Council, says that people’s private data will inevitably be lost and that measures to deal with these losses are inadequate:
“Whilst the creation of a national identity infrastructure will undoubtedly help to address some existing risks with the way people gain access to personal electronic services today, it will also undoubtedly create other, new ways in which people can be harmed.
“It is incontestable that identity subjects could be harmed, in some cases seriously, by the types of accident, failure, mistake and security breach that could take place within a national identity management system.
“It is also incontestable that no system can be 100 per cent secure, and no system can be either 100 per cent reliable or 100 per cent failsafe.
“The UK Government has to accept that its citizens will be put at risk of harm from accidents and incidents arising within the operation of any national identity management system.”
Read the full story in the Evening Standard.
You can sign the Liberal Democrats’ petition against ID cards here.
