http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2008/06/if-i-could-commission-one-government-it.htm Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:02:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2008/06/if-i-could-commission-one-government-it.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1194 dreamingspire Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:26:00 +0000 http://localhost/wp28/?p=1788#comment-1194 Lynne, the massive new 'we are watching you' database intended to be behind the ID card was scrapped in the late 2006 revision of the project. Its now a case of progressively cleaning existing databases (DWP, passport) and adding more people to them.<br/>What we do need to look at is how the ID cards will be verified, and its clear that the concept of dedicated verification terminals is unworkable, because there would have to be millions of them and the result cannot be directly used in other systems (e.g. local authority, employer HR, FE College, university, even banking). Verification by using a Call Centre is unfair and insecure to put it very mildly.<br/>And the phone and email data asked for is already there, held by service operators, because all govt claim to want is 'traffic data' (source, destination, time and date). Internet web page access traffic data is, however, a different problem. Lynne, the massive new ‘we are watching you’ database intended to be behind the ID card was scrapped in the late 2006 revision of the project. Its now a case of progressively cleaning existing databases (DWP, passport) and adding more people to them.
What we do need to look at is how the ID cards will be verified, and its clear that the concept of dedicated verification terminals is unworkable, because there would have to be millions of them and the result cannot be directly used in other systems (e.g. local authority, employer HR, FE College, university, even banking). Verification by using a Call Centre is unfair and insecure to put it very mildly.
And the phone and email data asked for is already there, held by service operators, because all govt claim to want is ‘traffic data’ (source, destination, time and date). Internet web page access traffic data is, however, a different problem.

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