Data Privacy & Identity Systems (ID cards, numbers etc) publications

Asia generally

• 'National ID systems in Asia: Surveying a 'growth area' including Table: Multi-purpose compulsory national ID cards in Asia  (unpublished, December 2010)
• 'South Asian ID cards: Technology accelerates, controls lags' (2010) Privacy Laws & Business International Newsletter 20-21 (October 2010)

Australia

• ‘A National ID system to put health privacy at risk’ Submission to the Community Affairs Legislation Committee Inquiry into Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010 and Healthcare Identifiers (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010

• ‘Function creep defined but still dangerous in Australia’s ID card Bill’ (2008) 24:1 Computer Law & Security Report 56-66; available on bePress as [2007] UNSWLRS 64
• 'Access All Areas': Function Creep Guaranteed in Australia's ID Card Bill (No. 1)’ [2007] UNSWLRS 11; Computer Law & Security Report, Vol 23 2007
• 'Australia's Proposed ID Card: Still Quacking Like a Duck' [2007] UNSWLRS 1; Computer Law & Security Report, Vol. 23, 2007

• ‘Lessons from the Australia Card - deux ex machina?’ (1988) 3:6 Computer Law and Security Report pg6
• ‘The Australia Card: towards a national surveillance system’ – a longer version of the article published in (1987) 25:9 Law Society Journal (NSW)
• ‘The deceptive history of the Australia Card’ (1986) Australian Quarterly, 58 (4): 407-425; on JSTOR.

Hong Kong

• ‘Hong Kong’s ‘smart’ ID card: Designed to be out of control’ [2008] ALRS 10; this is a longer version of the published Chapter in D Lyon and C Bennett (Eds) Playing the Identity Card Routledge, 2008
• ‘Submission on the smart ID Card and the Registration of Persons (Amendment) Bill 2001’ Submission to Bills Committee on Registration of Persons (Amendment) Bill, Hong Kong Legislative Council, October 2002

India

• 'India’s national ID system: Danger grows in a privacy vacuum' (2010) Vol 26 No 4 Computer Law & Security Review
• ‘Indian draft identity Bill is weak on data protection safeguards’ (2010) Issue 106 Privacy Laws & Business International Newsletter 24-25;
• 'Data surveillance in India: Multiple accelerating paths' (2010) Issue 105 Privacy Laws & Business International Newsletter

Japan

• ‘Japan plans comprehensive ‘smart’ ID system by 2015’ Privacy Laws & Business International Report, Issue 109, 22, February, 2011