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EFF warns of Big Brother biometrics time bomb

09.03.2012

The passing of a new law in France paving the way for a biometric database and requiring all citizens to carry a biometric ID card is a time bomb for civil liberties, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has warned.

On Tuesday, the French National Assembly passed a law for the creation of a national biometric database, ostensibly to fight identity fraud.

However, the EFF warns that biometric databases pose a mission-creep threat since the data can be used for reasons beyond identity fraud.

It points out that governments are increasingly demanding storage of citizens' biometric data on chips embedded into identity cards or passports and centrally held on government databases, with little regard to citizens' civil liberties.

The new laws compel the creation of an ID card that will contain information such as fingerprints, photograph, home address, height and eye colour. New passports will also contain the chip.

A second, optional chip will be created for online authentication for e-government services and e-commerce.

EFF points out that France doesn't have a good track record for protecting biometric information - last year, the French government confirmed that 10pc of biometric passports in circulation were fraudulently obtained.

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Contestée, la carte d'identité biométrique a été définitivement adoptée:
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Ce fichier sera d'une "puissance jamais atteinte", a rappelé, mardi, le député du Finistère Jean-Jacques Urvoas, pour le groupe PS. Il ne s'agit pas pour autant d'un fichage intégral de la population française, comme l'ont parfois affirmé ses contempteurs. La carte d'identité reste facultative – et gratuite, d'ailleurs. Les députés socialistes devaient saisir, dès mercredi, le Conseil constitutionnel, en arguant notamment du manque de proportionnalité entre le fichier et sa finalité, la lutte contre l'usurpation d'identité.

Six years after the passing of the UK's Identity Cards Act 2006, it's déjà vu al over again in France. On the last day of their parliamentary session and with a presidential election round the corner, they've only been and gone and done the same as us. It's rather touching. The same old false prospectus. Like seeing old friends again at a school reunion:

    • The French ID card will be "gratuite" (free).
    • The card will be "facultative" (optional).
    • The ID card is already being mixed up with the passport ("Le texte, adopté par les députés le 6 mars 2012, crée une nouvelle carte d'identité électronique et un fichier central réunissant les données biométriques de l'ensemble des détenteurs de la carte mais aussi du passeport"). The accounting for the budgets for these two different items may be equally mixed up.
    • The card will contribute towards the "lutte" (fight) against "l'usurpation d'identité" (identity theft). No measure of the current level of the identity theft problem. No promise how much the card will reduce it by. 100%?
    • The associated register ("fichier") will achieve unprecedented power ("une puissance jamais atteinte"). How? By the use of biometrics.
    • The timescales are optimistic, bordering on the delusional, ITT ready in two weeks ("fin mars"/end March), cards ready 18 months after award of contracts ("décret d'application"?):
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    Les nouvelles cartes pourraient être prêtes "dix-huit mois après la parution du décret d'application", estime Bertrand Maréchaux, le directeur de l'Agence nationale des titres sécurisés, qui supervise le dossier au sein du ministère de l'intérieur. Un appel d'offres pour sa fabrication devrait être lancé avant la fin mars.

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