[LINK] ID theft brings tech to law

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 06:50 +0800, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> "That means someone needs to be acknowledging the strengths and
> weaknesses of different and competing technologies. We're seeing a
> change of climate around that." The concept of technology neutrality -
> which meant legislation was drafted to apply to the handling of
> information in any context - was past its use-by date, Mr Wilson said.

I'd like to see a concrete example, where the technology itself is
relevant to its misuse. Can't think of pone off the top of my head. It
seems to me that "passing off" whether a product or am identity, can be
clearly enough defined to make identity theft and the preparation for
identity theft illegal, without needing to specify any specific
technologies at all.

Regards, K.

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