The smart pensioners at FIPR start to question whether ITSO-based bus passes for the elderly are ECHR or HRA compliant. How can one possibly justify the inclusion of all that personal data just to give elderly citizens their entitlement to free bus travel? Where’s the ITSO security/privacy policy? Who asked them what they wanted?

Look at what Dr John Welford is up to – see

http://www.jwelford.demon.co.uk/snec.html

Who wants a registered Oyster card linked to your credit card files when an unregistered one topped up with cash gives you the travel you want without the audit trail you’d rather not leave?

Because of Experian’s loathsome service-denial mechanisms (see rants elsewhere) I did weaken and fill out a form for one of those Barclay-Oyster-McCards (which also offers contactless payments as Philippe points out). But I’d only use the registered Oyster in an emergency, on principle, because I dont like to co-operate with any preventable and unnecessary aspect of the surveillance society. But I guess Experian’s monstrous discrimination engine will scupper that also (long story: exec summary is they’re extremely annoying and deserve to drown in paperwork and I’m a blameless victim deserving of beatification by acclamation, knighthood and a lifetime’s supply of reflexology at Experian’s expense).