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theguardian, working with No2ID<\/a>, have carried out an excellent investigation<\/a> into the new “more secure” biometric passports, of which three million are already in circulation. These passports contain information on RFID chips – entirely unnecessary for a valid passport – from which a hacker can extract your biometric information, making it possible to clone the information into a forged passport. So much for security.<\/p>\n

Compare the reactions. Nick Clegg:<\/p>\n

“Three million people now have passports that expose them to a greater risk of identity fraud than before. We need an urgent redesign of the biometric passport and a recall of all insecure passports once a new protected design is available. In the interim the government should provide commercially available RFID-shields for passports to those with the insecure design.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Home Office:<\/p>\n

“This doesn’t matter.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And these people want us to trust them with our biometric data on a giant national database.<\/p>\n

While we’re talking about civil liberties, here’s an excellent quote about 90-day internment from today’s Telegraph<\/em><\/a> via Radio 4’s newspaper review:<\/p>\n

Habeas corpus is a fundamental part of the British constitution. The liberty of subjects must not be subordinated to the preferences of a prime minister, however trustworthy, or to the convenience of police forces. Mr Blair sometimes acts as if being locked in a cell for 13 weeks was equivalent to waiting for holiday snaps to come back from the developer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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