Despite Home Office attempts to spin ID cards and the National Identity Register as being a benefit for the ordinary citizen, the message of government ID control shines through in this article in the FT:
Katherine Courtney, ID card programme director at the Home Office, said yesterday: “We don’t want a situation where people want for [...]
The Register publishes some analysis of the Government’s costings of ID cards. The Register’s suggestion makes the Governments figures look frighteningly like they were worked out backwards from the budget of the Passport office rather than the cost of setting up an ID scheme.
Would be nice if they would come out with some detailed [...]
Giles Foden of the Guardian has been reflecting on guns, databases and government computer fiascos:
Which all makes one wonder what has happened to the national firearms database, now seven years in the making and still not functioning. In January, on behalf of the government, Lord Rooker told parliament that it was necessary to suspend the [...]
Dr Emily Finch of the University of East Anglia (UEA) will present the Joseph Lister Award Lecture “Life-swapping in cyber suburbia – the problem of stolen identity and the internet”, at the British Association Science Festival in Dublin on 7 September 2005. According to the BBC preview of her talk:
The UK government’s proposed ID scheme [...]
In a fascinating example of Orwellian doublethink, Charles Clarke has claimed that building a National Identity Register with details of all UK residents will somehow help control a “Big Brother society”.
Speaking to Steve Downes of the Eastern Daily Press, Mr Clarke said:
ID cards are a means of controlling the Big Brother society rather than creating [...]
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