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Identity, Privacy and Trust
Examining issues around trust, privacy and data protection.
March 2008
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Heathrow Terminal 5 Suspends Biometrics
- Enterprise Privacy Group 26 Mar 2008 -
RFID: Doing things against the law is against the law (in Washington anyway)
- Enterprise Privacy Group 26 Mar 2008 -
Pay by Touch: Consumers Blow a Big Raspberry to Biometric Payments
- Enterprise Privacy Group 26 Mar 2008
BAA has confirmed that London Heathrow's Terminal 5 will not be using fingerprint biometric controls when it opens, due to concerns raised by Privacy International and the Information Commissioner.
Anyone caught scanning a person remotely "without his or her knowledge and consent, for the purpose of fraud, identity theft, or some other illegal purpose" will be charged with a felony. What the ...
Back in 2006 the MidCounties Cooperative made the news when it introduced "Pay by Touch" - a system to allow shoppers to pay for their purchases at the checkout using a pre-registered fingerprint ...
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The cost of privacy: biometrics at London Heathrow T5
- Enterprise Privacy Group 24 Mar 2008 -
Will one have one's biometrics taken?
- Enterprise Privacy Group 14 Mar 2008 -
The other big identity story - Microsoft acquires Credentica
- Enterprise Privacy Group 14 Mar 2008 -
Privacy bears its fangs for Phorm
- Enterprise Privacy Group 13 Mar 2008 -
Analysing the State of Play for ID Cards
- Enterprise Privacy Group 10 Mar 2008 -
A big day for the National Identity Scheme
- Enterprise Privacy Group 06 Mar 2008 -
Last in line for the DNA database
- Enterprise Privacy Group 06 Mar 2008
Specifically, they say that the systems will prevent exchange of travel documents by airside passengers : "The idea behind the fingerprinting is to make it impossible for a terrorist to arrive at ...
Her Majesty the Queen is opening London Heathrow's new Terminal 5. I've written about the biometric security controls at the new terminal before, and am waiting to see whether the opening will ...
The U-Prove scheme allows users to issue certified tokens that make an assertion without revealing any other identifying information: for example, to prove the holder's age without actually ...
It's clear that Phorm has given a lot of thought to the privacy implications of this service, which are potentially huge: after all, Phorm's servers will know everything about a user's online ...
His recommendations include restricting the objective of the scheme to citizen-centric identity assertion; operating the Scheme independently of government (with a direct report to Parliament); ...
These will include air-side workers at airports, of whom there are 200,000 who will have their contract of employment made conditional upon holding an ID card, and some Critical National ...
Setting aside arguments about the legality under Human Rights legislation, there are three key reasons why I would not be prepared to volunteer my DNA for a government database, and why such a ...