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" DB: Well actually, I think there will come a time, when people won't need a card at all, they will just literally have, them, the equipment, that is so sophisticated, that you literally just put your hand across it, and it will register, on the database , that You Are Who You Say You Are."
Does this mean that this government is heading into microchip implants.Would the government have us to drink a liquid which has a "chip" in it or would it be administered by injection.I think its time people wake up to the reality of whats going on and the approach of the NEW WORLD ORDER.
What Blunkett's alluring to is the fact that you have the necessary identification embedded in you already - in your eyes, your fingerprints, your DNA even? Chips are old-tech...
Despite David Blunkett's repeated assertions, "biometruic Identifiers" are NOT "unique" or "impossible to forge".
Whilst it is true that your iris pattern or finger prints or facial image are individual to you, a "Biometric Identifier" is only a digital copy or scan or photo of such individual features and can be trivially copied and used for a Replay Attack i.e. it can be easier to "steal your ID" without you being aware of it, from a hidden camera, or from the latent fingerprints that you leave.
The whole point of storing an authenticated copy of your biometric identifiers on a smart card, is that it is quick and easy for a reader device to check your face, iris, fingerprint etc against the pattern stored locally on the smart card.
Searching a database of 60 million data entries, via a limited bandwidth mobile network e.g. the Police Airwave radio system (which is limited to about 28.8 modem speeds for data) is hugely inefficient and will lead to massive queues at airports etc. if they ever attempt to do this without a smart card.
The popular TV series CSI Vegas or CSI Miami give the entirely false impression of how quick and easy it is for a computer to match a finger print accurately against a centralised database of criminal records, a task which is orders of magnitude smaller than the proposed National identity Register. The technology does not exist to do this in under a couple of seconds, which is what would be needed if massive queues are not to develop wherever more than a few citizens are challenged to "prove" their ID e.g. at airports, at hospitals etc.
It is much easier and quicker to match a biometric reading from a scanner or camera against the single stored biometric identifier pattern or a hash function checksum of such a pattern, stored in the smart card ID Card, which has been digitally signed to show that it is not a forgery.
The centralised National Identity Register becomes a huge target which would be vey worthwhile for for terrorists, mafia criminal gang or foreign intelligence agences to expend vast sums of money and resources in infiltrating or attacking - every soldier, undercover policeman, secret agent, supergrass informer in a witness protection programme etc. will have their fingerprints, iris etc stored on this database, rom the age of 16, i.e. even before they take up their secret jobs and identities.
Even giving the policemen on the beat *access* to such a system, is enough to make them and their families into potential targets for kidnapping and torture or bribery and corruption, by such people who want to identify their enemies or to compromise undercover investigations.
In his comment "if you use This Particular Banking Network, if you, for instance use The Internet, and we can identify you've done it"
(slightly paraphrased to remove all the ...err...s)
is Blunkett somehow referring to government monitoring of citizen's internet activity?
How on Earth will that work? Putting illegal spyware on every computer in the UK (notwithstanding firewalls and other security measures)? Monitoring every server in the UK (and those accessed abroad)? And even if the system was set up so that every reference to e.g. 'terrorism' or 'child porn' got logged, surely the volume would be far too great to ever do anything about it (for example, these strings would be on nearly every English news website in the world).
I personally think it more likely that they can get the information from a bank (for example) about a person's online dealing with that bank, but I thought they could do that already without any changes being made to the law. What do you think?
There are all sorts of dubious plans for European Union wide "money laundering" blacklist databases, but how these are meant to cope with non-banking money transfers between family or clan or tribal members (i.e. the same system used by the Knights Templar and Lombard bankers in the Middle Ages, the precursor to modern banking industries) is not at all clear. How you tell if you are being blacklisted in error on a foreign police database, is a secret, and brings the whole system into disrepute.
There are also huge UK and EU Data Retention plans for Communications Data i.e. itemised phone bills, cell phhone locations, crypto keys, web proxy server log files etc. However these founder on the cost and practicality, especially for data which the commercial telecomms and internet companies have no valid legalor commercial reason to retain after the bills and taxes have been paid, for the vast majority of innocent people's data.