Tag: identity

Angela Epstein is unbelievably pleased to have been able to “bag poll [sic] position” in getting a national identity card. While she is apparently aware that the cards are “hotly disputed”, she says “everyone is entitled to their view”. Epstein (the Jewish surname not without some grim irony here) may think that ID cards are…

…protocols for that), but the idea of asking for authentication in this way completely undermines best practice for identity protection and general security. How on earth are people supposed to navigate the datasphere safely if this kind of idiocy catches on? This is even worse than the practice of sites like Facebook asking for your Gmail credentials so they can mine you for contacts (“We won’t store your login details – honest!”), if only because…