By Will Sturgeon
Published: Friday 23 May 2003
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Name
Neil McEvoy
Location
Consult Hyperion, UK
Occupation
Director
Comment
Peter Dorrington’s comments strike me as tendentious at best.
Thus “biometric ID cards are not 100 per cent reliable in confirming identity”. And what is? Might 99.9% be good enough for some applications?
Again, “all they do is confirm against data which is held on the card”. And that is never any use because…?
Mr Dorrington states that “Typically a passport will go for anywhere between £500 and £5,000 on the black market. These ID cards will go for considerably more than that.” I can agree with that, but wouldn’t that indicate that his fears about the potential to duplicate cards are misplaced, and that he should be more concerned about the “dangerously flawed” current identification methods?
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