Friday, November 10, 2006

Halt to school fingerprinting. Halt to school fingerprinting. China strikes blow for privacy The Hong Kong privacy commissioner has ordered a school to stop fingerprinting children before it becomes a runaway trend that is too late to stop. [The Register - Internet and Law: Digital Rights/Digital Wrongs] 7:23:59 PM

Biometric ID cards an insecure menace, says EU ID outfit. Biometric ID cards an insecure menace, says EU ID outfit. Don't do it, and fix the passports ASAP, apparently... The EU-funded FIDIS (Future of Identity in the Information Society) project has warned that implementation of the current generation of biometric travel ID will dramatically decrease security and privacy, and increase the risk of identity theft. In the Budapest Declaration, which derives from FIDIS' September meeting in Budapest, FIDIS calls for short-term damage control measures to be taken (because biometric ID is already being rolled out), and for "a new convincing and integrated security concept" to be developed within the next three years. [The Register - Internet and Law: Digital Rights/Digital Wrongs] 6:41:47 PM

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