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recent bookmarks from jmThe Israeli Digital Rights Movement's campaign for privacy | Internet Policy Review2017-09-29T09:41:58+00:00
https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/israeli-digital-rights-movements-campaign-privacy
jmThis study explores the persuasion techniques used by the Israeli Digital Rights Movement in its campaign against Israel’s biometric database. The research was based on analysing the movement's official publications and announcements and the journalistic discourse that surrounded their campaign within the political, judicial, and public arenas in 2009-2017. The results demonstrate how the organisation navigated three persuasion frames to achieve its goals: the unnecessity of a biometric database in democracy; the database’s ineffectiveness; and governmental incompetence in securing it. I conclude by discussing how analysing civil society privacy campaigns can shed light over different regimes of privacy governance. [....]
1. Why the database should be abolished: because it's not necessary - As the organisation highlighted repeatedly throughout the campaign with the backing of cyber experts, there is a significant difference between issuing smart documents and creating a database. Issuing smart documents effectively solves the problem of stealing and forging official documents, but does it necessarily entail the creation of a database? The activists’ answer is no: they declared that while they do support the transition to smart documents (passports and ID cards) for Israeli citizens, they object to the creation of a database due to its violation of citizens' privacy.
2. Why the database should be abolished: because it's ineffective; [...]
3. Why the database should be abolished: because it will be breached - The final argument was that the database should be abolished because the government would not be able to guarantee protection against security breaches, and hence possible identity theft.
]]>digital-rights privacy databases id-cards israel psc drm identity-theft securityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:eaa5bdc6ab84/Firms involved in biometric database in India contracted by Irish government2017-09-09T09:20:29+00:00
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/firms-involved-in-biometric-database-in-india-contracted-by-irish-government-1.3214640?mode=amp
jmTwo tech firms – one owned by businessman Dermot Desmond – involved in the creation of a controversial biometric database in India, are providing services for the Government’s public services card and passports. Known as the Aadhaar project, the Indian scheme is the world’s largest ever biometric database involving 1.2 billion citizens. Initially voluntary, it became mandatory for obtaining state services, for paying taxes and for opening a bank account.
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Dermot Casey, a former chief technology officer of Storyful, said that if the Daon system was used to store the data and carry out the facial matching then the Government “appears to have purchased a biometric database system which can be extended to include voice, fingerprint and iris identification at a moment’s notice”.
Katherine O’Keefe, a data protection consultant with Castlebridge, said if the departments were using images of people’s faces to single out or identify an individual, they were “by legal definition processing biometric data”.]]>biometrics databases aadhar id-cards ireland psc daon morphohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ddf30f99c8bb/Comment: 'Mandatory but not compulsory' - what exactly is the justification for the Public Services Card? - Independent.ie2017-08-30T11:32:31+00:00
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/comment-mandatory-but-not-compulsory-what-exactly-is-the-justification-for-the-public-services-card-36083216.html
jm'Mandatory but not compulsory". This ill-judged hair-splitting seems likely to stick to Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty in the same way that "an Irish solution to an Irish problem" and "on mature recollection" did to politicians before her. The minister used that phrase to defend against the criticism that the public services card (PSC) is being rolled out as a national ID card by stealth, without any clear legal basis or public debate. She went on to say that the PSC is not compulsory as "nobody will drag you kicking and screaming to have a card".
This is correct, but irrelevant. The Government's strategy is one of making the PSC effectively rather than legally compulsory - by cutting off benefits such as pensions and refusing driving licences and passports unless a person registers.
Whether or not the PSC is required by law is immaterial if you cannot function in society without it.
]]>psc id-cards ireland social-welfare id privacy data-protectionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:30fad3c3e779/Government urged to declare if it wants mandatory ID cards2017-05-22T12:06:08+00:00
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/government-urged-to-declare-if-it-wants-mandatory-id-cards-1.3091892
jmprivacy government ireland id-cards lawhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:359d1da91e3e/South Korea faces $1bn bill after hackers raid national ID database • The Register2015-02-18T23:22:22+00:00
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/14/south_korea_national_identity_system_hacked/?mt=1424301659350
jm> Turns out a pot of honey is sweet']]>fail south-korea korea security id-cards ssn id-numbers privacyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:bbf40b2d48a4/BBC News - South Korean ID system to be rebuilt from scratch2014-10-15T22:56:21+00:00
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29617196
jmThere are several reasons that the ID cards have proved so easy to steal:
Identity numbers started to be issued in the 1960s and still follow the same pattern. The first few digits are the user's birth date, followed by either a one for male or two for female;
Their usage across different sectors makes them master keys for hackers, say experts;
If details are leaked, citizens are unable to change them
via Tony Finch.]]>south-korea identity id-cards ppsn hackershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:87187a31b739/EcoJel jellyfish identification card2014-08-22T16:03:09+00:00
http://www.iws.ie/_fileupload/advice/id_card_for_website.pdf
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