Comments on: Do we need identity cards, and soon? http://idealgovernment.com/2009/07/do_we_need_identity_cards_and_soon/ What do we want from Internet-age government? Wouldn't it be better if... Wed, 14 May 2014 08:35:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Birch http://idealgovernment.com/2009/07/do_we_need_identity_cards_and_soon/comment-page-1/#comment-2832 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:59:26 +0000 http://do_we_need_identity_cards_and_soon#comment-2832 I couldn’t agree more. What we want is an identity management infrastructure for the 21st century, but unfortunately the government has always been blind to the possibilities afforded by new technology, relying on management consultants to design the scheme, and have never allowed (as William has often said) a body of critical friends to be heard.

The Tory plan to scrap it is as rubbish as the government’s plan to keep it. It needs to be redesigned from scratch to create a National Privacy Card.

]]> By: Ian Brown http://idealgovernment.com/2009/07/do_we_need_identity_cards_and_soon/comment-page-1/#comment-2831 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:14:53 +0000 http://do_we_need_identity_cards_and_soon#comment-2831 There are all sorts of technologies out there that would simplify online authentication (not least CardSpace). They are much easier to deploy than identity cards. The Home Office would be much better served working with private sector providers (as the government’s own reviewer, James Crosby, told them several years ago) if this is their intention, not wasting everyone’s time with the National Identity Scheme.

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