More on David Blunkett’s spokesman’s personal attack on the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas in the Evening Standard.
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis called the attack “irresponsible”.
The Information Commissioner oversees the Data Protection Act. His duties include “developing respect for the private lives of individuals”.
The BBC reports the Information Commissioner’s growing concern as details of the ID cards scheme emerge.
Richard Thomas said he had initially greeted the plans with “healthy scepticism” but the details had changed his view to “increasing alarm”.
He is worried that British plans are more comprehensive and ambitious than any other scheme in the world, and [...]
Article in Computing about the British Computer Society’s submission to the Home Affairs Select Committee that identifies a catalogue of problems with the ID card proposals.
“The risk of failure is significantly increased because there does not seem to be any firm and fixed statement of what the system is meant to achieve, what success [...]
Roya Nikkhah in the Telegraph reveals that Government officials are signing letters to members of the public using bogus names.
In a written response, Jane Kennedy, the Minister of State for Work, told him that managers in the department were allowed to use bogus names – known as “office names” – when signing letters. “Managers may [...]
Yakub Qureshi in Scotland on Sunday reports that the UKPS biometrics trial is having difficulty recruiting enough volunteers. A shortfall of around 25% means that the shortfall will have to be made up by a massive increase in the number of people ‘dragged off the streets’ outside ID card processing centres.
Professor Alan Marshall, a specialist [...]
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