ID Cards
ID cards were on the agenda of the Home Affairs select committee again last week (see Kablenet for a report - the Home Affairs committee website has yet to catch up). Ross Anderson - who helped the BMA sink plans for NHS networking and electronic patient records in their mid-1990s incarnation - gave a generally critical appraisal of the plans. Then his argument was that a national, networked system presented too great a security risk: the probability of hackers gaining access to confidential information was 100%. This time his worries seem similar: that a single national database of biometric information would be a target for those wishing to threaten the security of the nation.
