Don’t let up in ID card battle
ZDnet’s leader column issues a call to arms to the Lords in the aftermath of the ID Cards Bill’s passage through the Commons:
Where are our legal safeguards against official abuse? Where is the detailed costing? Where is the biometric technology that will work for sixty million individuals? What will happen to us when our card goes wrong? All these questions have been repeatedly asked at every level within government and without. None has been answered to any testable degree.
Not for the first time, the proper protection of individual rights now falls to the House of Lords, who are showing every sign of acting on their responsibilities. They have only to look at what has gone before and judge the case on that evidence to come to the right conclusion and throw the whole compromised, incoherent, expensive mess back at the perpetrators. If they don’t, we’ll all pay for Clarke’s mistake for decades to come.
