An article in Prospect magazine describes the growth in expensive IT schemes in public services, and asks why so many of them go wrong.
A study of seven countries to be published next year finds sharp variations in the proportion of government IT projects that are eventually scrapped… Britain emerges as a world leader in cancelling [...]

The Telegraph reports how since the introduction of compulsory ID cards in Holland this year 50,000 people have been fined €50 for not carrying them. This has raised €2.5 million so far.
With the UK government paving a road to compulsion that logically leads to the requirement to carry papers at all times, can we [...]

The Scotsman reports that large companies could immediately force employees and job applicants to register for an identity card if parliament legislates for “voluntary” ID cards:
An identity card could become a prerequisite to being hired by many of Britain’s biggest employers, in a move that would undermine the supposedly voluntary nature of the controversial scheme.
Thirty [...]

Next time you hear someone make the glib claim, I have nothing to hide, therefore I have nothing to fear, perhaps tell them this story.
The police are the ones who decide if you have something to hide or not. In such circumstances we all have plenty to fear. David Mery might be considered [...]

The Scotsman reports on the catastrophic failure of a biometrics-based security system at a Scottish prison:
Prison officers have been forced to abandon a new security system and return to the use of keys after the cutting-edge technology repeatedly failed.
The system, which is thought to have cost over £3 million, used fingerprint recognition to activate [...]