The Register - Security: IDBiting the hand that feeds ITSAS extends fingerprint ID system for domestic flights- January 31, 2008 All voluntary - for now Swedish airline SAS is extending a biometric security program on national flights from Stockholm and Gothenburg and will roll it out to international flights in the near future.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/31/sas_launches_biometrics/ Forget passports - teachers and kids are the new ID card targets- January 29, 2008 Trust and inclusion foregrounded in desperate rescue plan Teachers and 16 year olds are the favoured 'soft targets' for the redesigned ID card scheme rollout, according to an Identity & Passport Service planning document seen by The Register. As suggested in leaks last weekend, IPS now plans to soft-pedal fingerprints and - astoundingly - it seems on the point of abandoning the notion of forcing ID cards onto the public via passport renewals.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/29/id_strategy_doc_leak/ IPS leak suggests ID card fingerprint chop- January 28, 2008 Prints might just be needed for 'special' groups A key component of the UK ID card scheme, the central database of fingerprints, may be abandoned, according to a leaked Home Office document obtained by the Observer. The document doesn't suggest entirely scrapping fingerprints, but instead suggests that their value should be assessed for each group of the population enrolled.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/28/id_cards_chop_fingers/ 'Coercion' plan to force ID cards on first time drivers- January 28, 2008 Not compulsion - sign here to end the pain... "Various forms of coercion" could be used to accelerate the rollout of ID cards, the idea being that ID cards will remain 'voluntary' for as long as possible, while not having an ID card will become more and more uncomfortable. This, precisely what the government has intended to do all along, is stated baldly in an Identity & Passport Service leak cited by the Sunday People.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/28/ips_coercive_driving_schem... Bank turns London man into RFID-enabled guinea pig- January 27, 2008 Halifax customer bites back The Halifax bank is enrolling unsuspecting customers in trials of a new generation of RFID-enabled bank cards, and trying to keep them in the program even if they have mis-givings about the wave and pay technology.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/27/paywave/ Join the army, get your ID pinched - MoD laptop goes AWOL- January 20, 2008 Ten years' supply of applicants swiped from car Personal details of the 600,000 people who have applied to join the armed forces over the last ten years were stolen with an MoD laptop earlier this month, it was admitted late on Friday. The computer was stolen from the car of a junior naval officer, which was parked outside his house overnight in Edgbaston, Birmingham.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/20/mod_recruits_laptop_theft/ Yahoo! backs! OpenID!- January 19, 2008 Password complexity be damned Yahoo! has pledged to support OpenID from the end of the month, giving a massive boost for the online identity framework that aims to cut password headaches.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/19/yahoo_openid/ Personal data for 650,000 customers vanishes into thin air- January 18, 2008 Bad timing for J.C. Penney CEO Personal information belonging to more than 650,000 US customers of J.C. Penney and other retailers is at risk after the company hired to safeguard the data lost a backup tape.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/18/jc_penney_customer_data_lo... Boro council in child data theft flap- January 17, 2008 Nine nicked laptops hanging on the wall A break-in at Middlesbrough Council has resulted in the loss of nine laptops containing sensitive case files on up to 63 vulnerable children.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/17/boro_laptop_theft_flap/ US.gov sets Real ID rules in stone- January 14, 2008 Privacy advocates, security mavens, states' rights renew assault Critics have renewed their offensive on a federal law mandating changes to state-issued drivers licenses after the US Department of Homeland Security on Friday issued final rules implementing the controversial measure.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/14/realid_changes_issued/ |