The recent report on Identity
Fraud by the Cabinet Office emphasises the limitation
of single-source means for authenticating individuals’
identities. An entitlement card in itself will never
be a sufficient means of conclusively proving an identity.
However, it has the potential to deliver much higher
levels of authentication for an identity than are
afforded by existing high-trust documents, such as
a UK Passport, especially if it holds securely one
or more biometric signatures for an individual. Verification
of identity using a PIN or password, or using biometric
signatures, would considerably reduce the opportunities
for identity fraud in many circumstances. A biometrically
enabled entitlement card could provide a highly effective
additional measure against identity fraud. >>
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Privacy of information, data protection security
for individuals, respect for human rights; the introduction
of an entitlement card raises a number of ethical
issues. >>
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With the rapid take up of on-line services across
all business sectors, the need for secure forms of
digital identity to accompany valuable exchanges of
data has dramatically increased.
e-Transactions bring a new element to the proof of
identity, as the face-to-face element of many transactions
is removed and the matching of other identity elements
will be relied upon. >>
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Application Evolution - our view of the short term
future. >>
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Use of identity across the lifetime of the individual.
Life events, medical records, travel, driving, tax
and benefits, education, private finance, voting and
democracy. >>
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Chances are, if you open your purse or wallet, you’ll
find, somewhere in there, several forms of identification
cards. >> more
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