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20051019 Wednesday October 19, 2005

 A little bit more on Digital Certs...

Just a quick update as I'm off on holiday soon and a tonne of work still to do...

I'm definitely in the wrong part of the Identity Profession, by the way. Robin Wilton, my corporate counterpart, got to spend a sojourn in Singapore of all places, whereas I got back ache during stand duty at SOCITM in Brighton. Yes, it was grey and yes it was raining. Do I feel sorry for him cooped up in an economy class seat? ... only a bit. ;-)

Anyway, following on from my last entry.

The ID Card survived its third reading yesterday. Quite a large amount of opposition on the back benches there. On to the rigourous scrutiny of the House of Lords. ;-)

It also appears that this National ID Card and/or Digital Certificate stuff is still all over the place. I heard today that Mr. Clarke fully intends the card to be capable of carrying a certificate - I'll try to get a link for that one soon. Does that mean we're going to have to pay extra for our own Certificates on top of the basic card? That won't help the digital divide. The rich will be able to afford extra security online, the poor won't. Who knows, but it will be interesting to see what happens next.

Oh, and there was this bit of encouraging news for ministers on how much better multiple biometrics are as opposed to just one.... not!

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