Day: October 14, 2009

Yesterday’s Evening Standard, London’s newest free-sheet, published a story about “Police war on fake ID factories”. Evidently, a £750 printer from PC World is all one needs to produce convincing replicas of “the propose new ID Card and EU driving licence” as well as “passport entry stamps and national insurance cards”. According to the Standard, the police have initiated “Project Genesius” to stop these kinds of printers falling into the hands of criminal gangs. The development has implications for privacy