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British Telecom Pushes Universal ID Check System
miladus writes "URU (You Are You) is a new ID verification scheme from BT designed to
allow government and businesses to confirm identities on the net. The BBC has a full report on how, according to BT officials, 'URU will be a major ingredient in transforming and joining up government... and how it will
become ubiquitous for citizens, businesses, etc.'. Apparently, URU complies with European privacy laws."
The delay on the URU check killed me.
Looks like Oracle bought the U.K.
In phase one, the only details that will be entered are name, address and Meter Point Asset Number
TK-421! Why aren't you at you post?
"I only speak the truth"
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This system is the internet version of one that has been out for a long time overthere. They used numerical IDs for the people, the most famous one being 007 James Bond.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
Just look at The President's Analyst from 1967.
Google doesn't index user sigs, so stop trying to "Google Bomb" with them.
What American privacy laws? Europe has privacy laws, the US has Equifax.
"Due to information received by Big Brother about 'every ong revolting', all of the ongs will be pre-emptively destroyed. That will be all."
"If being a geek means being passionate about something, then I pity those who aren't geeks." - Pike65
If they had kept the REAL acronym, it would have made people happy.
You Are You > YAY!!
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This sounds a lot like the idea of attaching your home address to your keychain, so honest people can mail you your keys if you lose them.
Too bad most people aren't honest.
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I refuse to have anything to do with something spawned from the so-called vocabulary of an SMS user.
Will the email you get be just as undecipherable and irritating?
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
Well, they already seems to be tracking every property in the UK, as the article states:
the only details that will be entered are name, address and Meter Point Asset Number - the number in the corner of every household electricity bill which is unique to that property
But then they go and cause more distrust of the program, by stating of these numbers:
It could also become a pre-requisite of any universal ID card
And lastly, I feel we've all eard this one before:
It is a pro-active way to protect your identity
Well, ok, one more, but only because it sounds funny out of context:
we need mega-systems
Work sucked, until it became unemployment, when it became slightly more tolerable. -Tet
Actually, people who claim to go to Church (as opposed to church) would really make me worry about being identified for my online persona. Not for porn, but violent video games, rpg's, and anything on evolution will attract the ire of the _C_hurchies. They are quite judgemental about what everyone else is allowed to look at, you know. I'll keep my details (and my freedom) to myself, thank you very much.
Although it would be interesting to see the clergy getting busted for looking at altar-boy kiddie porn... :-)
Murphy was an optimist.
I'm convinced that you can't get a peice of identity-based legistlation passed these days unless it make a cute acronym in English. What do the Italians, Spanish, or Germans think URU means?
The open source version: GURU
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Does this officially make them part of Oceania?
And that, in a nutshell, is why america's stock has fallen so badly internationally. Keep those ideas in mind when you realize that your government couldn't get 4 countries to agree to a bake sale without offering 70 billion in subsidies.
and if I have to explain that to you, then the battle is already lost.
BC
SO you also have a problem with C-hurch goers (aka thumpers)?
;-)
;-) What about you?
Here's a hint on how to deal with them. Read the bible.. I didnt say BELIEVE it. That's what thumpers' only weapon is. And if taken out of context, the bible contradicts itself quite a bit.
After you best them in an argument of "religion", make a snide comment how I'm ATHEIST and I know more about the Bible than you do!!
Really pisses them off
Btw, I'm Catholic, and I get thumped for playing AD&D, M:TG and various pc games (Unreal-like games, NWN, and others). So far, I'm going to hell 7 times
Yes, God, although He is Absolutely Perfect in other matters, is just so-so when it comes to writing documentation.
No, no, that wouldn't do at all. If you pay attention, you'll see that Revelation is one of only two books that Bible-thumpers read. They read the Genesis and, realizing how many pages there are in the whole Bible, skip to the Revelation, to see if the butler did it.
The Norse thunder god Thor has filed a trademark infrigement lawsuit against British Telecom.
damn volkwagons... always infested with bugs..
I know how you feel bud.