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BBC News - ID cards inevitable, says ex-minister Lord West - 8 views

  • The cards were designed to hold personal biometric data on an encrypted chip, including name, a photograph and fingerprints.
  • The supporting National Identity Register was designed to hold up to 50 pieces of information.
  • The ID-card scheme was launched in October 2009 but cancelled 16 months later and the database destroyed.
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BBC News - Government IT use must change: Institute for Government - 0 views

  • Flexible approach The government has already said it is seeking significant savings in its annual spending on IT - and will announce on Wednesday that both the Treasury and Cabinet Office will have to approve IT contracts worth more than £5m.
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How will the national identity card work? - 2 views

  • For the smart card technology to work, it must be backed up by fingerprint and eye-scanners in banks, shops, estate agents, hotels, and public services such as hospitals. To check your identity they in turn must have 24hr access to the National Identity Register (NIR). Every time the card is used, information about when, where, and how it was used is stored on the database in the form of an audit log.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | China's battle to police the web - 0 views

  • Psiphon works through social networks. A net user in an uncensored country can download the program to their computer, which transforms it into an access point.
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Generation 5: Artificial Intelligence Repository - Military Applications of AI - 2 views

  • Morality: A Quick Thought
  • Military Applications of AI
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      Don't worry about this section on Genetic Programming or Neural Networks
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