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Source: InfoSecurity-Magazine - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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John Daugman, Cambridge-based pioneer of iris recognition told an audience of sixty security professionals, lawyers, and privacy advocates last night: “it is Orwellian to base a political campaign on disinformation�. Daugman had in his sights the LSE report, published in July, critical of the UK government’s identity cards scheme.
Simon Davies, Visiting Fellow, Information Systems Department, LSE, also in attendance, conceded that the iris recognition sections of the original report were in error, and are being excised.
But he re-stated his main objection “to a creeping communitarianism – where the common good, as defined by the government takes precedence over the privacy rights of the individual�.
Daugman and Davies were speaking at a seminar at the University of London’s Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on understanding the technological and legal issues surrounding the UK government's proposed introduction of ID cards.
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