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December 06, 2004
Identity Cards Bill - contents
Identity Cards Bill
Contents
Registration
1 The National Identity Register
2 Individuals entered in Register
3 Information recorded in Register
4 Designation of documents for purposes of registration etc.
5 Applications relating to entries in Register
6 Power of Secretary of State to require registration
7 Procedure for orders under s. 6
ID cards
8 Issue etc. of ID cards
9 Renewal of ID cards for those compulsorily registered
10 Functions of persons issuing designated documents
Maintaining accuracy of Register etc.
11 Power to require information for validating Register
12 Notification of changes affecting accuracy of Register
13 Invalidity and surrender of ID cards
Provision of information from Register for verification purposes etc.
14 Use of information for verification or otherwise with consent
Required identity checks
15 Power to make public services conditional on identity checks
16 Procedure for regulations under s. 15
17 Power to provide for checks on the Register
18 Prohibition on requirements to produce identity cards
Other allowed uses of registered information
19 Use for purposes of public authorities etc.
20 Further uses connected with the prevention and detection of crime
21 Use for correcting inaccurate or incomplete information
22 Power to authorise other uses of information
23 Rules for using information without individual’s consent
Supervision of operation of Act
24 Appointment of National Identity Scheme Commissioner
25 Reports by Commissioner
26 Jurisdiction of Intelligence Services Commissioner and Tribunal
Offences
27 Possession of false identity documents etc.
28 Identity documents for the purposes of s. 27
29 Unauthorised disclosure of information
30 Providing false information
31 Tampering with the Register etc.
32 Amendments relating to offences
Civil penalties
33 Imposition of civil penalties
34 Objection to penalty
35 Appeals against penalties
36 Code of practice on penalties
Fees and charges
37 Fees in respect of functions carried out under Act
38 Amendment of Consular Fees Act 1980
Provisions relating to passports
39 Verifying information provided with passport applications etc.
40 Amendments of legislation relating to passports
Supplemental
41 Orders and regulations
42 Expenses of Secretary of State
43 General interpretation
44 Scotland
45 Short title, repeals, commencement, transitory provision and extent
Schedule 1 —
Information that may be recorded in Register
Schedule 2 —
Repeals
EXPLANATORY NOTES
INTRODUCTION
1. These explanatory notes relate to the Identity Cards Bill as introduced in the House of Commons on 29 November 2004. They have been prepared by the Home Office in order to assist the reader of the Bill and to help inform debate on it. They do not form part of the Bill and have not been endorsed by Parliament.
2. The notes need to be read in conjunction with the Bill. They are not, and are not meant to be, a comprehensive description of the Bill. Where a clause or part of a clause does not seem to require any explanation or comment, none is given.
Posted by wtwu at December 6, 2004 02:50 AM
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Comments
NO WAY will I carry an ID card.
It's about time people in Great Britain stood up and said enough is enough.
There are MANY other ways and means of monitoring the movement of aliens/possible terrorists within the borders of Great Britain.
The imposition of a compulsory ID card system is just another BIG step on the road to dictatorship.
If they pass it - Just refuse to register :
CAN'T CARRY ID - WON'T CARRY ID
And if they mail you a card - BURN it.
We don't have to take this crap from Parliament - USE your VOTE at the next elections and show them you want a FREE, FAIR and JUST society - Not one dominated and controlled by BIG BROTHER.
Posted by: John Bull at December 14, 2004 04:08 PM
OK, I have now read the whole thing and I'm staggerd by the shear amount of data needed. According to the official census figurus from 2001 here there are 46,900,000 UK citisens over the age of 16 who would be eligable for inclusion.
Scedual 1 Gives a list of what 'may' be included. So I'm going to run down this with what I hope are sencible sizes for the fields.
See also
S(1) 1 (a) Full name. There is at least one pour sod in the UK with the entire Manchester United teem as there name. char(256)
S(1) 1 (b) Other names. Lets say you are not going to have more than 10 of these. char(2560)
S(1) 1 (c) Date of birth char(10)
S(1) 1 (d) Place of birth. Full address(?) char(255)
S(1) 1 (e) Gender. char(1)
S(1) 1 (f) Current address. char(255)
S(1) 1 (g) Other addresses in uk. Humm the queen has how places? Lets go for 6 others. char(1530)
S(1) 1 (h) Any other address. Humm I've lived in over 10 diffrent places in my life, buts lets limit it to the last 5 years char(1530)
S(1) 2 (a) A photo. humm BLOB(5K)
S(1) 2 (b) Signiture. BLOB(1k)
S(1) 2 (c) Fingerprints. 8 fingers 1k each(?) BLOB(8k)
S(1) 2 (d) Other biometric data. This has to be a compleate stab in the dark BLOB (10k)
S(1) 3 (a) Nationality char(2)
S(1) 3 (b) Entitlment to stay in UK. humm x-reference with som other government doc char(20)
S(1) 3 (c) Terms and conditions. humm 3 pages of A4? char(3k)
S(1) 4 (a) Nat Identity reg Number char(16)
S(1) 4 (b) ID card number char(16)
S(1) 4 (c) NI number char(9)
S(1) 4 (d) Immigration document char(16)
S(1) 4 (e) UK passport number char(9)
S(1) 4 (f) Other passport char(9)
S(1) 4 (g) Travle documrnt number char(9)
S(1) 4 (h) Non UK ID char number char(16)
S(1) 4 (i) ref number to stay in uk char(9)
S(1) 4 (j) work permit humm char(9)
S(1) 4 (k) Driver number char(16)
S(1) 4 (l) Other document char(16)
S(1) 4 (m) Expiry date for above char(120)
S(1) 5 (a) Changes. Ok lets keep a change log over a persons life. 10 pages of A4? char(10k)
S(1) 5 (b) When and who changed stuff. Include in above
S(1) 5 (c) Date of death. Ok so for how long do we keep this active? char(10)
S(1) 6 (a) Date of every application made. Max 50 applications per person char (500)
S(1) 6 (b) Modification application. char(50)
S(1) 6 (c) Confermation application. char(50)
S(1) 6 (d) Reasion for ommission humm lets be generous char(10k)
S(1) 6 (e) Perticulars of every id card issued 10 cards per life time 528 bytes per card char(5k)
S(1) 6 (f) Each card in force and if not why not char (5k)
S(1) 6 (g) ye gods! 2 ppl per aplication 10 docs per life time 255 bytes per person char(5k)
S(1) 6 (h) char (500)
S(1) 6 (i) char (10k)
S(1) 7 (a) 50 modifications per life 256 bytes per modification char(12.5k)
S(1) 7 (b) char(12.5k)
S(1) 7 (c) char(12.5k)
S(1) 7 (d) char(12.5k)
S(1) 7 (e) char (12.5k)
S(1) 8 (a) char (16)
S(1) 8 (b) char (256)
S(1) 8 (c) 5 questions and answers 60 bytes each char(300)
S(1) 9 (a) 50 requests per life 200 bytes per request char(10000)
S(1) 9 (b) char(1000)
S(1) 9 (c) char(1000)
Grand total per record 149009 bytes = 135.60k
Multiply by number of people in UK = 6828850683.59k = 6.36 Tera bytes of data
This has to be searchable in real time and does not take accounnt of forign nationals or dead people.
Do you think the government can habdle a data base of that size
Posted by: John at December 15, 2004 02:25 AM
Biometrics:
ICAO minimum sizes are 10kb for fingerprint, 12-15kb for face, 10kb for iris.
ICAO optimum sizes are 15kb fingerprint, 20kb face, 15kb iris.
An ICAO standard passport photo is approximately 643kb, which can be safely compressed to 112kb.
FBI fingerprint images tend to be approximately 120kb.
Posted by: Anna Ellis at October 11, 2005 11:54 AM
The ICAO specs for the Biometric passport are for a conbtacless chip with only 64Kb of memory.
You also need to allow some memory space for any Certificate Revocation Lists for the difgital signatures and/or encryption keys, if any.
Posted by: wtwu at October 12, 2005 12:13 AM