eema e-ID
[Dave Birch] I was invited to speak at a seminar, organised by eema, on the UK e-ID card. The seminar covered progress to date (which didn’t take long, as the IPS speaker dropped out) and the impact on business applications. This was a useful and illuminating discussion because of the spectrum of organisations represented around the table, ranging from the Department for Work and Pensions to BT. There was a super discussion about privacy in the afternoon, featuring Ben Laurie (with his Open Rights hat on), Pete Bramhall (from HP) and Gus Hosein from Privacy International. There’s an integral relationship between identity and privacy in the electronic world and so I always enjoys these discussions, especially since none of us were called on to define what we mean "privacy" (or, for that matter, "identity").
