David Bell: Why ?
David, Have you read the article ? why even make that amount of information public ?
Note: Here in Ireland we've been relatively sensible about this to date.
The police (Garda Siochana) will issue a proof-of-age card (voluntary) to prove your're over 18.
Its got: Name, Photo, "This person is over 18".
Period. No other identifiers.
As was pointed out in the article, even the name is unnecessary. But once you've put enough
info on it (A unique number, or DOB + NAME + something else) you've given away the bank:
enough info to track and tie all other records to. In an age of mobile phones, those bits will
tie you to an audit trail and get any other information that a nosey tracker / company wants.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
