Saturday, 11 August 2007

National identity cards to become a reality

Britain has taken a step closer to being a nation of ID card carrying people. The last ID system was disassembled after WW2. Cards are to carry fingerprint, iris and face-recognition technology, and are described as vital to fight terrorism, serious organized crime and illegal immigration. Critics say that they will infringe civil rights and be a costly flop. More from Reuters here.
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I am director of the Media and Persuasive Communication (MPC) network at Bangor University where I also lecture on political-economy of the media. I am currently working on a book provisionally titled Deconstructing Privacy for Peter Lang and leading two empirical projects in connection with privacy perception and the use of new media for smoking cessation. I am author of Creativity and Advertising: Affect, Events and Process (Routledge, 2013); The Mood of Information: A Critique of Behavioural Advertising (Continuum, 2011); and Digital Advertising (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009). Please contact me at mcstay@bangor.ac.uk if you are interested in Ph.D supervision or consultancy services.