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16 May · Mon 2005

UK Parliamentary Report on ID Cards


Following Kim Cameron's recent post linking to the recent LSE report on ID Card proposals in the UK, I thought it worth adding a pointer to the Parliamentary Research Report of December 2004 on the same topic. For some reason I can't access it at the original URL, here , but fortunately I had squirrelled a copy away just in case. Here it is: House of Commons Research Report. It does a very good job of putting the proposals in context, then sets out both the government's arguments in favour and some of the principal objections raised. In my view (as you would by now expect...), the proposal of a single centralised national ID register, populated with newly-issued credentials, is fundamentally flawed. People already have credentials which are already trusted to a quantifiable (if not uniform) degree, and the sensible approach is to federate existing credentials rather than try to impose a further 'universal' one.
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