"Privacy" International
As mentioned by Ben Laurie [link to http://www.links.org/?p=116 no longer works]; Simon Davies, the Director of Privacy International, was quoted in IT Weeks’s Will industry rescue the identity card? [link to http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/analysis/2160946/industry-rescue-identity-card no longer works] as saying:
“I’ve believed for some months that a ‘white knight’ consortium from industry is needed,” Davies said. “Companies that can see the benefits of the ID card idea should approach the government about effectively taking over the project.”
I find this particularly galling from a group dedicated to privacy. They are in their own words: “a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations.”
Like Ben, I am speechless.
Think of it as judo.