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We have our comments to the Home Affairs Select Committee on ID Cards
with a series of recommendations (summarised below) followed by a brief
explanation
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Chris
Our recommendations to the Committee are summarised as follows:
1. We invite the Committee to conclude that the original focus on an
ID/entitlement card scheme upon a mechanism for establishing identity
has been replaced by an emphasis on the central database of registrable
facts.
2. We invite the Committee to conclude that for most part, the contents
of the central database of registrable facts have nothing to do with
establishing identity or entitlement.
3. We invite the Committee to conclude that the central database of
registrable facts is needed mainly in order to link diverse Government
databases together and/or to serve the needs of the law enforcement
agencies.
4. We invite the Committee to conclude that the central database of
registrable facts should not contain audit trails of ID card use that
can be accessed, in secret, by the security services and police in order
to identify the services used by every citizen.
5. We invite the Committee to conclude the Data Protection Act will not
afford much privacy protection in relation to the collection and use of
registrable facts on the central database.
6. We invite the Committee to conclude that public support for the
introduction of an ID Card has been obtained in the absence of an
informed public debate about the nature of the central database of
registrable facts.
7. We invite the Committee to conclude that the provisions in the draft
ID Card Bill which grant powers to Ministers to draft wide regulations
which can impact on privacy are not subject to effective scrutiny.
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