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Identity Cards Bill

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for that reply. I was not seeking a long and technical explanation, I was just trying to flag up that the issue should be looked at. In fact, the improvements that I seek also relate to identity management and proving identity in new schemes that have been proposed. I would say only one thing that would be worth the Minister’s technical people thinking about before they come back to me. Even if it is not done directly online, if I managed to submit an inquiry online that asked for verification of my details, and managed to get round the system at that point, then at some point I may obtain someone’s biographical details and I could start to impersonate them. This relates to identity theft. Mechanisms have been proposed to me, because I sit on the Information Systems Security Association’s advisory board, about ways that people think that they may be able to penetrate the procedures in relation to this matter.