May 6, 2018

May 6, 2018 by yorksranter 1 comment

80% accuracy is not nearly 99%

I am beginning to worry that the government, and specifically the Home Office, thinks 80% accuracy is nearly 99%. At the same time as the FT was arguing for a national biometric identity database, it also dropped this scoop. The Home Office seems to have used some sort of voice identification test in an effort…

May 6, 2018 by yorksranter 2 comments

What’s worse than ID cards? The ID card register without the cards

A lot of people seem to think the Windrush scandal is an argument for national ID cards, and as a result, the Financial Times ran this collection of four short articles on four different experiences. This includes two European ones that are kind of OK, the disastrous Indian Aadhaar project, and one that hasn’t happened…

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