I’m sure it’s ‘old news’ by now
but I came across, by chance, your discussion last May on ‘the maths of
biometrics and ID cards’ and, in particular, your conversation about my
father’s case. For information, as far as we can tell (and it’s never
really been investigated), it never was a case of stolen identity but simply
mistaken identity. It seems Derek Sykes back in the early 1990s used the
pseudonym Derek Bond on a number of occasions (for fairly random reasons). The
FBI somehow picked up on this and, when my father visited the US,
attached a warning label to his passport details. This seems to have then followed
him around on his various travels after that so that, in effect, he became the
man they were looking for because it was his passport details that were on the
FBI records. When he was arrested in South Africa
they were convinced he was the right man because his real passport matched the FBI/interpol
records. I’m not sure how this impacts on your discussion but I thought you’d
be interested to know!
(By the way he’s still fighting for some sort
of compensation - the FBI is refusing to cover even his actual costs as they refuse
to admit any sort of liability, which is a bit rich if the scenario above is
accurate).
Regards
Richard Bond
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