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May 23, 2004
S1(1) Personal information
Personal information
1 The following may be recorded in an individual's entry in the Register.
(a) his full name;
(b) other names by which he is or has been known;
(c) his date of birth;
(d) his place of birth;
(e) his gender;
(f) the address of his principal place of residence in the United
Kingdom; and
(g) the address of every other place in the United Kingdom where he has
a place of residence.
Posted by wtwu at May 23, 2004 11:53 PM
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Schedule 1 (1)
NO!
c.f. comments above on Section 1 (4) and (5)
With a Biometric Identifier based Smart Card and/or Central Database there is no need to record any of the following:
"(b) other names by which he is or has been known;
(c) his date of birth;
(d) his place of birth;
(e) his gender;
(f) the address of his principal place of residence in the United Kingdom; and
(g) the address of every other place in the United Kingdom where he has a place of residence"
in order to identify someone with a Biometric ID Card.
Why has gender crept into the list, when it does not appear in Section 1 (4) and (5) ? It is not even legal to dicriminate against transgendered people these days, let alone men or women, so what is the purpose of recording "gender" on the NIR ?
Nothing which is not human readable on the face of the ID Card except for the Biometric Identifiers and their secure cryptographic hash function Digital Signatures, should be recorded in secret on the ID Card or on the Central Database.
Coupled with the ?1000 civil penalty to ensure accuracy of the NIR entry, this is more data than is required to be given to the police by people who are on the Violent and Sexual Offender Register (ViSOR)
Unlike ViSOR entries, the
Posted by: wtwu at May 24, 2004 03:24 AM