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Adam Smith Institute Blog - Europe's favourite think tank blog: Not by coincidence my Alma Mater, the London School of Economics, released their study into the costs and benefits of the scheme. As the Telegraph reports there are some differences on cost estimates: The Home Office predicts that the scheme will cost £7 billion but the LSE puts the minimum cost at £10.6 billion - without the technical (via Cosmos)

Stumbling and Mumbling: It will have no impact on crime levels and will only result in a whole new "invented" crime of not-having-an-ID-card, which mentally ill people and forgetful people and infirm and elderly people and people who've had their bag stolen will be caught out on and less room in the jails for people who've actually done nasty stuff and more government money being spent of prisons. Isn't it obvious its a waste of time? (via Cosmos)

The Identity Corner: While enterprise identity architectures such as the Liberty Alliance ID-FF architecture may be adequate for the corporate management of the identities of employees and suppliers who access their corporate resources, it would have highly problematic implications if used for government-to-citizen identity management. The identity provider and the service providers would have the power to electronically monitor all citizens in real time across all government services, and its insiders (as well as hackers and viruses) would have the power to commit undetectable government-wide identity theft with a single press of a central button. (via Cosmos)

Overdo's Land of Nothingness: This obviously has huge privacy implications and has ledto the formation of No2IDan organisation seeking to stop the current Identity Cards Bill. TheGovernment has already acknolwedged that it will be allowing 3rdparties, such as Banks, access to the database and so in bringing thedatabase "online" (via Cosmos)

The Ideal Government Project: I was feeling a bit blocked on Kim's last questions, so thanks to Simon D and all involved at the LSE for taking this forward. And thanks to our all friends round the world who care about identity systems and see that what's happening here is important. (via Cosmos)

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[Idcorner.org] The Identity Corner: While enterprise identity architectures such as the Liberty Alliance ID-FF architecture may be adequate for the corporate management of the identities of employees and suppliers who access their corporate resources, it would have highly problematic implications if used for government-to-citizen identity management. The identity provider and the service providers would have the power to electronically monitor all citizens in real time across all government services, and its insiders (as well as hackers and viruses) would have the power to commit undetectable government-wide identity theft with a single press of a central button.

[Britishcouncil.org] News - Info@uk - British Council - Information Services: ”˜In November 2001, W3C responded to a clear demand from the Web community and the W3C Membership to write down a description of the architecture of the Web. Aspects of the architecture have been described and debated many times in the past, but the overall principles which make the Web as we know it work, and work well, have not previously been described in a single, coherent document by a group of acknowledged experts, and reviewed in such a focused manner by the community.

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