Has the government got the business case for ID cards right?
By Information Security Group (ISG), Royal Holloway in Industry
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In asking whether the government has got the business case for ID cards right, we need to understand precisely what that business case is. Plenty has been written on how the government has been changing its mind on what benefits the ID cards provide since the inception of the programme. If we look at the speech made by the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to Demos on the 6th of March 2008 giving an update on the identity card scheme, the justifications are broadly split into two areas.
Firstly, there are a number of preventative measures which have been previously touted as reasons for the scheme
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Control the controllers
By Information Security Group (ISG), Royal Holloway in Industry
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