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I work for a large insurance company. As one of my tasks I have to verify peoples' identity, and on our templates for identification I have recently seen 'National ID Card' as one of the options for proving somebody's identity. Since they haven't been introduced yet, isn't this a bit presumptuous? Or have there been behind the scenes business deals going on that we aren't aware of? The 'Think...

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/my_reaction_to.html Quote: [Eric] Schmidt [Google CEO] said: I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines -- including Google -- do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all...

i too work for a bookies, and been informed today that i will be receiving a disciplinary next week for not i.d someone last thursday, but was told they are over 18 years old. as for training reading social compliance is not training. on a daily basis i i,d most, but if the shop is busy and machines are busy what is the priorty? do i i.d then write down details whilst the punters want to put there bets on? i think it should be changed to...

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Not as tinfoil hattish as you might think; websites have for years been able to do this. User goes to site for first time - "anonymous" cookie created and related record created in website database. Subsequent visits access this cookie and link up to previously stored data. A survey site I worked on before the millennium had this so that questions already answered would be remembered and merged into a full user account upon...

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The first 1500~ish UK ID cards have now been issued (mainly to Home Office staff and journalists, it appears), or are in the process of being issued. Furthermore, many EU citizens are entitled to work and reside in the UK, many of whom will have an ID card from their home country as their only travel document.

It may be worth pointing out to your employers that at this stage, and for the foreseeable future, they will have no realistic means of determining whether a profferred 'ID Card' is genuine or fake. Flicking it to see if it 'sounds right' is merely laughable. As things stand the 'ID Card' proves absolutely nothing at all as there is no means of authenticating it.

You're right Stu - some people are keen to have an ID card scheme installed, for a variety of reasons. There are those who believe it would be convenient, others who feel that a centralised scheme could help the fight against global terrorism. Still others think it might help with illegal immigration or benefit fraud. So, hypothetically, if an appetite existed to design a non-evil ID scheme, what would it look like? My (rambling)...