Computer Weekly reports the Institute for the Management of Information Systems’ response to the Home Office ID cards consultation in an article entitled, Biometric ID cards do little to cut fraud.
As one of, if not the leading international professional association devoted to the management of information systems within the business environment (representing 14,000 IT professionals) [...]

Computer Weekly reports the warnings given by the British Computer Society in written and oral evidence to the Home Affairs Committee.
BCS external relations director, Mike Rodd said:
“There is a lack of common understanding of what the system is for and what it is trying to achieve. If you do not know exactly what the [...]

A brief summary of the British Medical Association’s reservations about the ID cards scheme, as stated to the Home Affairs Select Committee:
The BMA does not want GPs to become unofficial immigration inspectors and is opposed to any idea of linking medical records with the ID card or its supporting database. The BMA also claims that [...]

A woman operator in a police headquarters control room illegally used force computers to run checks on her friends, writes Duncan Higgitt in The Western Mail.
Leanne Thomas, who worked in the control room at Gwent Police in Cwmbran as a skilled computer operator, was caught accessing the criminal records of people she knew. On one [...]

As a part of the Citizen Information Project – just one of the government’s current attempts to create a population register – Government Computing News reveals that “the search for suppliers to work on possibilities for data matching and data sharing across Whitehall departments is now underway.”
Howell said that the UK Passport Service and Driver [...]