The Observer has seen parts of a forthcoming report on the ID card scheme produced by a group of more than 100 academics, hosted and published by the London School of Economics:
Last week the Home Office issued a report which estimated that, over the next decade, the cost of running the scheme, in conjunction with [...]

This article in the New Statesman carries a deadly quote. The Government usually likes to quote unnamed officials from the security forces, as a means of getting second-hand, unchallengeable authority.
“Public opinion likes the idea of ID cards because it seems like the ultimate solution to all known problems,” says Brian Gladman, retired director of [...]

Online computer industry magazine silicon.com has a “Chief Information Officer Jury pool” of senior IT leaders from both the public and private sectors. Twelve of these jurors were asked to pass judgement on the technical feasibility of the government’s ID cards plan:
We asked silicon.com’s CIO Jury user panel of leading UK IT chiefs to put [...]

The Transport and General Workers’ Union (T&G) has attacked the government’s ID control plans, calling them “an enormous, costly and unnecessary diversion”.
Barry Camfield, T&G assistant general secretary, said:
ID cards will cost over five billion pounds and are based on flawed ideas and unproven technology. Instead of funding a new ‘Big Brother’ society with all the [...]

A Channel 4 News survey shows massive opposition to the government’s ID Card scheme