{"id":603,"date":"2006-03-20T22:19:34","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T21:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/20\/uk-id-cards-switching-to-chip-and-pin-for-cost-reasons\/"},"modified":"2006-03-20T22:19:34","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T21:19:34","slug":"uk-id-cards-switching-to-chip-and-pin-for-cost-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/uk-id-cards-switching-to-chip-and-pin-for-cost-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"UK ID Cards Switching To Chip and Pin For Cost Reasons&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Last week, Andrew Burnham, a junior minister at the Home Office, confirmed the anonymous email by admitting that the ID card scheme would now include chip-and-pin technology because it would be a cheaper way of checking each person&#8217;s identity. The sophisticated technology on which this bill was sold will cost too much to operate, with millions of checks being made every week.<\/p>\n<p>That is a very important admission because the government still maintains the fiction that the ID card is defence against identity theft and terrorism. The 7 July bombers would not have been deterred by a piece of plastic. And it is clear that the claim about protecting your identity is also rubbish because chip-and-pin technology has already been compromised by organised criminals. What remains is the ceaseless monitoring of people&#8217;s lives. That is what the government is forcing on us.<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,,1734265,00.html\">The Observer<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Andrew Burnham, a junior minister at the Home Office, confirmed the anonymous email by admitting that the ID card scheme would now include chip-and-pin technology because it would be a cheaper way of checking each person&#8217;s identity. The sophisticated technology on which this bill was sold will cost too much to operate, with millions of checks being made every week. That is a very important admission because the government still maintains the fiction that the ID card is defence against identity theft and terrorism. The 7 July bombers would not have been deterred by a piece of plastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-national-database-and-id-card","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-9J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}