WRITTEN ON Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?

Hurrah! In a step forwards for common sense and a step backward for the Benighted ID Scheme they’ve just scrapped compulsory ID Cards, and abandoned the airside workers scheme (Telegraph – Ian spotted it first)
He said the cards will now only be issued to Britons on a voluntary basis meaning no one will ever be [...]

WRITTEN ON Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 BY Richard S AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?

According to this report, Alan Johnson is abolishing compulsory ID Cards, starting with “air-side” airport workers.
As always, the precise detail of this decision is crucial. But let’s hope that this decision marks the beginning of the end of the crazy ID project which has wasted so much money and so much valuable talent.
Let’s hope that [...]

WRITTEN ON Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?

Philip Virgo likes the new IPS policy which is called Safeguarding your identity. I’m not so sure:
Philip: It’s late and I havent read it carefully. But the whole statement is built on the assumption that goverment should be our identity provider for online services.
But I think there’s a strong case to be made that [...]

WRITTEN ON Sunday, June 28th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Political engagement, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?

Bang. That makes a hat-trick of Ideal-Government agenda nails hit on the head by Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition this week. Liam Maxwell’s CPS pamphlet ‘It’s ours – Why we, not government, must own our data” is a must-read. And a tonic.
Essentially it’s a long-overdue VRM manifesto for government IT, which also places a lot of [...]

WRITTEN ON Saturday, June 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement, We told you so..., What do we want?, Wibbipedia/MindtheGap

[updated] Here’s a socking great Tweet from David Cameron to Imperial College. He lambasts control state Britain, ID cards, ContactPoint, RIPA and the surveillance state. These things are, as we have said many times, far form Ideal. But he goes on speak with some conviction and some detail on a positive agenda of transparency, accountabiliy [...]

WRITTEN ON Friday, June 26th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?

The Lords’ Constitution Committee has given its verdict on the government response to its report Surveillance: Citizens and the State
we are disappointed that the Government’s response does not fully appreciate the danger posed by surveillance to privacy and the relationship between individuals and the state. We regret that the Government have not agreed to a [...]

WRITTEN ON Thursday, June 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?

Cracking speech by Dame Pauline Neville-Jones. She concludes:
As I made clear at the start, the individual is the rightful owner of personal information and the state is merely possessor and should behave as a responsible custodian. We need to roll back the advance of Big Brother and restore this fundamental right of our citizens. [...]

WRITTEN ON Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Power of Information, Save Time and Money, What do we want?

Nice Tim Berners-Lee note about putting government data online, tweeted by the director of digitla engagement.

WRITTEN ON Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, What do we want?

Hurrah! It looks as if Richard Thomas is going out with a bang. And well done Computer Weekly
The information commissioner has ordered the opening of confidential files on a wide range of high-risk IT projects, including the ID cards scheme, joined up police intelligence systems and the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). It is [...]

WRITTEN ON Monday, June 22nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?

While digging out old presentations I found this private briefing to (the xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx) Sir James Crosby who at the time was advising Gordon Brown about ID management.
private briefing for Sir James Crosby by William Heath
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The presentation set out the communications problems surrounding the ID debate so far, and [...]