Subject: "The Challenge of Effective Identity Policies: Lessons from Around the World"
Privacy International in Asia and The Tata Institute of Social Sciences announce:
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Among the striking events that characterised the turbulent first decade of the 21st century, which saw security being stepped up to unprecedented levels in most democratic nations, was the rejection - literally, the scrapping - of the Identity Cards Project in the United Kingdom (UK), and the destruction of the data already collected from UK residents.
Among the striking events that characterised the turbulent first decade of the 21st century, which saw security being stepped up to unprecedented levels in most democratic nations, was the rejection - literally, the scrapping - of the Identity Cards Project in the United Kingdom (UK), and the destruction of the data already collected from UK residents.
This decision of the UK government marked the culmination of a countrywide protest movement against the ID card project. A major facilitating factor in this nationwide campaign was the release of a report from the London School of Economics and Political Science. It demonstrated the futility of nationwide biometric-based identity schemes, showing that they were slated to become endless exercises of ever-increasing expenditure, bringing in their wake perilous risks to enrollees of identity theft on the one hand, and to the managers - the government - the risk of increasing thefts and losses from its databases, carrying with them penalties of compensation to the persons whose identities were put at risk.
The lead author of this scholarly study is Professor Edgar Whitley. Prof Whitley is Reader in Information Systems at the Information Systems and Innovation Group in the London School of Economics and Political Science. He will address a public meeting on the 19th of April 2012 at 5 PM at the Oriental Institute, Modi Hall, on Thursday, on "The Challenge of Effective Identity Policies: Lessons from Around the World".
All are cordially invited.
"The Challenge of Effective Identity Policies: Lessons from Around the World"
Speaker: Professor Edgar Whitley
Date: 19th of April 2012
Time: 5 PM
Venue: The Dr. J. J. Modi Memorial Hall, The K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, Ground Floor, 136, Mumbai Samachar Marg, Fort, Mumbai - 400 023. (Landmark: Opposite Lion Gate)
Map of the venue: http://www.krcamaorientalinstitute.org/feedback.php