Just over 7 weeks after it was submitted, and given a bit of a nudge, 10 Downing Street have finally responded to our e-petition.
Their response was however such an insult to the intelligence of all those who had signed the petition that we felt compelled to write a rebuttal.

Alice Miles in the Times details the huge new database that will give thousands of NHS workers unprecedented access to your medical secrets.
The patient record programme — which will include new information, but not existing records — is part of the £6.2-billion IT system being built to cover the whole NHS. It is the biggest [...]

The Birmingham Post reports Jayne Innes’ campaign launch in the Birmingham Yardley constituency. Apparently she kicked off with with a ’survey’:
Instead, local party members chose Jayne Innes, a charity director from Coventry. She began her campaign by releasing the results of a survey which showed 86 per cent of Yardley residents polled by Labour supported [...]

CNET News reports the theft of more than 30,000 people’s records from George Mason University in Virginia, opening up the possibility of ID theft for staff and students.
This is not, however, a one-off:
George Mason is not alone among universities in suffering a security breach. Two years ago, online intruders broke into a server containing the [...]

Jonathan Glancey writes in the New Statesman on why government policy on ID cards is an insult to our national heritage.
The example of Shakespeare’s King Lear suggests that identity cards go against our national heritage and culture. Such an illiberal measure could not be supported by any half-decent British politician, and certainly not one who [...]