the Home Office revealed that bank card-style PIN numbers - and not biometrics - would be used to verify the ID cardholder's identity in some cases.
Phil Booth, national co-ordinator of the No2ID campaign, ... said in a statement: "After all its overblown claims about the infallibility of biometrics and how highly secure its ID system will be, it turns out our identities are to be protected by nothing more than a four digit PIN. The Home Office may as well give away all our personal data to organised criminals and fraudsters, who will always target the weakest point in a system."
In correspondance, my MP has said said the point was that biometric cards would be uncrackable and therefore the cards are a guarantee of identity; if this happens, that argument [flawed as it was, by over-reliance on the idea that the tech was up to the job] has now bitten the dust: a system is as strong as its weakest point. We already know that while chip and pin is a step forward in security, it is not infallible and can be abused by targetted criminal activity.
If you are in the UK, now is the time to write to your MP on this.
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Surely if a check on someones ID does not need to be so secure as to require biometric testing I can't see how it can be efficient / effective to require councils etc to install expensive PIN reading machines, rather than rely on photos / signatures.
At least Durham Council is adamant that it won't require ID cards to access services unless made to do so by law.
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