[Blog entry, so linked here rather than in "Articles". An excellent essay from an excellent blog - read the whole thing. AJW]
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Could cracked ID cards provide privacy protection?
Posted by Richard on Aug 7, 2009
The UK National Identity Card can be cloned and altered by IT security experts.
Colour me unsurprised.
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It would be possible to regain some of this control, however, if we were able to change at will the details stored on our own ID cards. Facts that we are not willing to share could be either falsified, replaced with nonsense or erased. A mobile phone “identity management” application could be written to store multiple personality profiles for your ID card. Using this, you could switch between personae as the need arises, perhaps even employing your phone’s in-built GPS chip to make sure the “Mr. Smith” profile is on the card when you’re at the Doctor’s surgery and the “Mr. Jones” profile is active when visiting your bank. Being able to compartmentalise your relationships with third parties in this way would be a very strong personal privacy measure.
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