Archives: July, 2009
WRITTEN ON Monday, July 13th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
Not only are our passports too expensive (cf €59 for the Irish); they leak our personal details through their insecure RFID chips. This is far from Ideal. This, it seems, is the device we need to cure the latter problem:
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WRITTEN ON Friday, July 10th, 2009 BY Ruth Kennedy AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?
Hmm. Weird one. Would love an explanation and direction from the experts out there. Today I received this email: From: “Alan Olding” *alamo@waitrose.com* Date: 9 July 2009 11:57:26 GMT+01:00 To: Ruth Kennedy Subject: DVLA Prize draw Hi, What is the closing date for the DVLA SEAT IBIZA car please, it is not to be found [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, What do we want?
My correspondent Henry writes to say I just received a curious survey from the Home Office about their websites… I found the features listed in question 7 particularly interesting (attached) … would the HO seriously endorse community generated content? I’ve no idea. But let us help them complete their survey in a tender and supportive [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?
Oh great. Our passports (which cost IPS a few quid each from the outsourced contractor) are already absurdly expensive. And now Phil Woolas wants to make them even more expensive, including the pointless ones for children: Phil Woolas (Minister of State (the North West), Home Office; Oldham East & Saddleworth, Labour) Together with the Parliamentary [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, July 5th, 2009 BY Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Here is the text of a talk Sir Bonar delivered at the University College of London Open Tech event today: [check against delivery] Ladies and Gentlemen: My name is Bonar Neville-Kingdom. I’m very pleased to be invited to speak to you today at Opentech in my capacity as Her Majesty’s most senior civil servant concerned [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, July 3rd, 2009 BY Harry Metcalfe AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
We need to be able to authenticate ourselves online. The Government’s Identity Card scheme is in part an attempt to do this, and it’s really bad, but we do need some sort of system that offers more than traditional proofs of identity. I’ve just read Alan Johnson’s article at Comment Is Free. Other than to [...]
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