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Displaced post-Godhra riot victims get election ID-cards
I What was different this time was that it was not just a mere photo opportunity but one meant to help exercise his fundamental right, vote, with assembly elections in Gujarat slated later this year.
Memon (36) is among the thousands of enrolled electorates in Gujarat who are displaced from their original houses now living in shanty colonies and have been just handed over their election ID-card. He availed his Election Process Identity Card (EPIC) as a displaced communal riot victim living in a colony on the outskirts of Ahmedabad with hundred others who share a similar fate. Full Article from Timesofindia.indiatimes.com.
Friday, June 29, 2007
SPDC steps up efforts to issue ID cards before referendum
The Burmese government has reportedly stepped up efforts to issue identification cards to ethnic minority civilians in preparation for a referendum tipped to happen after the National Convention ends.
Sources from cease-fire groups have told DVB that civilians living in government-controlled areas are now being told that they can apply for ID cards and that the processing time will be just one day. Naing Aung Ma Ngae, spokesperson for the New Mon State Party, said that the government appeared to trying to keep record of the civilian population in the group?s cease-fire area for the first time. ?Now people are saying that the idea of issuing ID cards and collecting house-hold data is to make it possible for everyone to participate in an upcoming referendum,? Naing Aung Ma Ngae. Full Article from English.dvb.no.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
LaserCard Corporation Announces $1.5 Million in Follow-On Orders for Optical Memory-Based National ID Card
LaserCard Corporation , a leading supplier of secure ID credentials used in biometric identification, today announced receipt of $1.5 million in purchase orders for the LaserCard(R) Optical/Smart(TM)-based national ID card project in a Middle Eastern country.
One purchase order, valued at approximately $0.9 million, is for the supply of secure national ID cards under a previously announced subcontract. This follows orders previously delivered bringing the total value received under this subcontract to more than $6 million. Delivery under the current order occurred in June. In addition the Company has begun shipments against a purchase order, valued at approximately $570,000, for secure optical card encoders for this program. Full Article from Cnn.com.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Experts say Brown may delay ID cards
James Hall, head of the Identity and Passport Service has admitted that the ID card procurement has been held up, saying: ?We?re not quite ready.? His remarks came as Brown prepares to enter Number 10 as prime minister.
Eric Woods, government practice leader at analyst firm Ovum said, a Brown government would not back away from the programme, but added: ?The rollout still offers a political and electoral risk that the new prime minister may be wary of taking.? Woods said the ?more pragmatic approach? to the controversial project outlined by the government at the end of last year - when it abandoned plans for a huge new database to hold the national identity register in favour of adapting existing systems ? and Sir James Crosby's forthcoming report on identity management across public and private sectors could broaden the debate on identity management. Full Article from Techworld.com.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
National ID Cards The 'Sleeper' Immigration Issue?
In a New York Law Journal column (subscription required) that Yale-Loehr co-authored with Ted J. Chiappari summarizing the current proposal, they write: "The proposed [electronic verification system] could be the sleeper issue in the immigration reform debate, since it would affect all American workers, not just noncitizens. For example, the bill would require the
Social Security Administration (SSA) to issue fraud-resistant Social Security cards within two years after enactment. The bill also requires the SSA to consider adding biometric information to Social Security cards.This could effectively make Social Security cards a national ID card."That assumes such a system could be built. The San Francisco Chronicle has a good piece on how incredibly difficult such an electronic verification system would be to build and keep secure. Here's one cut: "Speaking for the Association for Computing Machinery, a scientific and educational group, [Peter Neumann, principal scientist at the Computer Science Laboratory] said lawmakers frequently have outsized expectations of technological fixes for social problems." Full Article from Informationweek.com.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Cops kill 3 alleged carjackers, bank robbers in QC gunbattle
A third suspect, initially identified as Naldy Samonte, was declared dead on arrival at the Quirino Medical Center.The police said the first suspect as clad in white T-shirt but could not immediately give further details as he was bloodied.
The second suspect was described as wearing a white t-shirt, black denim pants, and rubber shoes.Several ID cards and credit cards recovered from the suspects bore the name Joseph Sarmiento, while an ID from the Parañaque City Health Office bore the name Joel Punzalan, 28.MA News reported that a fearful Sarmiento attested that the van was stolen, and that he was the driver of that vehicle for his Chinese-Filipino employer Judy Yang.The Starex originally had the plate number XKB-982. Sarmiento said armed men held him at gunpoint in Parañaque on Saturday night, before being hogtied and blindfolded in the vehicle.After an hour, the car thieves left him along a flood way in Pasig. Full Article from Gmanews.tv.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Data-carrying devices open to abuse, senator warns, but industry says it's not a problem.
"The technology is readily susceptible to all kinds of abuse," he said.
The Palo Alto Democrat is so concerned that he is pushing five separate bills targeting potential abuse of government microchip ID cards. His most contentious proposal, Senate Bill 30, would mandate security measures that manufacturers call unnecessary and unwarranted.Simitian's other bills would prohibit use of such cards for three years in schools or on driver's licenses, make it a misdemeanor to skim microchip data and ban anyone from coercing another person to have an ID microchip implanted under their skin."I'm carrying these because there's a fundamental right to privacy embedded in our constitution," Simitian said.Sen Ellen Corbett, D-San Leandro, is carrying separate legislation that would require private firms that use microchips in credit cards to notify consumers and to provide information about security measures taken.Opponents counter that the plethora of legislation is Full Article fromSacbee.com.
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