Category Archives: ID cards

Re-posted from archive of infinite ideas machine 2004: Last Thursday’s article in the Times, ‘Long eyelashes and watery eyes thwart ID card technology’ and Lucy Sheriff’s take on it in El Reg report a (predicted) 7% failure rate in the … Continue reading →

Re-posted from archive of infinite ideas machine 2004: (Artwork available on request)

Re-posted from archive of infinite ideas machine 2004: According to evidence given by the Director of the Identity Cards Programme, Katherine Courtney, to the HAC on 4th May, the UKPS biometrics pilot has suffered from a few gremlins! Old news … Continue reading →

Re-posted from archive of infinite ideas machine 2004: After a couple of well-informed comments from wtwu at Spy Blog, I’ve been trying to plough further through the Home Office Publications and Consultations Archive, Hansard and HAC transcripts [see below] in … Continue reading →

Re-posted from archive of infinite ideas machine 2004: ‘They’ in this instance refers to the Home Affairs Committee on Identity Cards, who have published the uncorrected transcripts (i.e. neither witnesses nor Members have had the opportunity to correct the record) … Continue reading →