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Evidence which Identity Trust CIC submitted last year to the Home Affairs Committee has been published in "A Surviellance Society?" a report which has been released on June 8, 2008. The Home Affairs Committee warns against function creep and recommends policies of data minimisation for the UK government. The fifth report on the subject is particularily concerned about any attempt to use patient or children data for the purposes of predictive profiling. Pre-supposing intention through the analysis of attention is a great danger to the UK public. Below is the memorandum Identity Trust has submitted in July 2007 as evidence which has helped create the policy recommendations published in this report. Home Affairs Committee: Evidence Ev201 APPENDIX 29 Memorandum submitted by the Identity Trust Published June 8, 2008 INTRODUCTION 1. Identity Trust is a proposed initiative to create a Community Interest Company192(CIC) initiative focused on building tools and processes that enable transparency and more equitable user/ supplier relationships. Identity Trust is member of the ITU-T Focus group on Identity Management, a member of the Internet Governance Forum: Dynamic Coalition on Privacy at the UN, and the US based Identity Commons. Currently identity Trust is being consulted by the OECD focus group on Identity Management for input into guidelines to facilitate the development of regulatory standards for national identity management. 2. Identity Trust is in the process of raising investment funding to facilitate and extend the development of commercial guidelines for the emerging Identity Industry. This emerging industry is being compared to the Telecommunications Industry crossed with the Credit checking industry and will prove to be a commercial example to which the government surveillance practices will be measured by. 3. it is the intention of this submission to advise on the role of transparency and the use of transparency in a reciprocal manner to the use of surveillance over people and their identity data. The more surveillance and the greater the scale and use of that transparency of people and their identifiers, the greater the need transparency, and user visibility needed over the management, manipulation, purpose, and sharing of that data. Eg User Identity Management logging, with read, write, aggregate, and |
