The Guardian reportsTwo national newspapers paid to receive confidential information from the police national computer which makes it sound like the newspapers are what we should be worrying about, rather than the security of our data. But if newspapers are getting secret police material, who else is? Riel Karmy-Jones, prosecuting, told Blackfriars crown court in [...]
Charles Clarke and Alan Milburn have been playing politics with the tragic murder of Detective Constable Stephen Oake by a failed asylum-seeker, trying to use it to justify forcing ID cards on everyone in the country. Compulsory national ID cards wouldn’t have prevented the murder, nor helped uncover the poisoning plot (assuming there actually was [...]
Possibly the most alarming thing about this story Ricin case sparks asylum concerns may be the reasoning in the Home Office reaction… [The murderer,] Bourgass said he had destroyed his documents before entering the UK and claimed asylum in January 2000 using the name Nadir Habra. Nevertheless, Home Secretary Charles Clarke denied the case was [...]
Duncan Gardham in the Telegraph today picks up on Charles Clarke’s abuse of royal prerogative in his article Fingerprint passports will be ‘ID card by stealth’. The plot thickens, though, as it appears that in the face of growing criticism the government are now trying to deny what they said to The Guardian yesterday: But [...]
The Guardian reports: Ministers are to press ahead with the mandatory fingerprinting of new passport applicants using royal prerogative powers to sidestep the loss of their identity card legislation last week. As Caoilfhionn Gallagher, policy officer of Liberty, said: “If the government cannot convince parliament or the public of the need for a multi-purpose ID [...]
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