Privacy Pro Slams FTC, DHS Security Procedures
Privacy International Director Simon Davies, a loud critic of Britain's national ID card scheme, isn't confident in identification procedures used by the U.S. government either. During a speech at an FTC conference on Monday, he pointed out flaws in the agency's own security practices.
"I can go to Kinkos and [create an ID with] a picture of a dog and my name on it and it would be perfectly acceptable," he joked. Not wanting to single out the FTC, Davies also told a story about lax ID authentication procedures he experienced during a Department of Homeland Security visit last month.
The two-day FTC meeting was organized as a forum for discussion among public sector, industry and consumer representatives about better ways to authenticate identities of individuals in the U.S. Read more about the conference in Technology Daily's PM edition.
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