Briefly, more worrying developments on the trust front. In certain UK locations, applicants for new passports are being asked questions regarding their credit record. There's apparently a partnership in place between the IPS and a credit agency: Equifax has been mentioned.
Extraordinarily galling is that some white sock grey shoe nutter on the IPS side claims - in the above linked article in Computer Weekly - that this is an example of how people are happy for data to be exchanged between public and private sector when they can get something in return: a passport!
The Open Rights Group - where I picked this one up - will no doubt be tracking this development. Am I the only person who's wondering how much longer we can put up with this - sadly no longer funny - inept creeping surveillance state we clearly now live in.
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