Peter Kingston writes in The Guardian:
Identity cards would not make Britain a safer place and nobody in the secret intelligence services supports their introduction, according to the former head of MI5.
Asked at a further education conference whether she thought ID cards would make the country safer, Dame Stella Rimington replied: “No is the very simple [...]
Philip Johnston, in an opinion piece for the Daily Telegraph, identifies the National Identity Register as the worst component of the so-called Identity Cards Bill, saying it should instead be called the Identity Register Bill:
There are many people who remember carrying the old wartime ID cards, scrapped in 1952, and cannot see what all the [...]
Consultants hired by the Home Office have joined the London School of Economics in questioning specific aspects of the Home Office’s Identity Cards costings – in particular the expected life of the cards themselves. Alan Travis writes in the Guardian:
The Home Office published only an extract from the KPMG study yesterday, which omitted any of [...]
More news on the LSE’s fortcoming revision of its ID card cost estimate. David Leppard writes in the Sunday Times:
[The forthcoming LSE report] says that almost every government department will be forced to introduce new computer systems to make them compatible with the new ID card software, effectively adding between £5 billion and £10 billion [...]
Andy McCue writing in Silicon.com reveals that the LSE has raised its estimated upper limit of the true cost of the ID cards project to almost £30bn:
Dr Edgar Whitley, a member of the Identity Project team at the LSE, told silicon.com the initial cost estimate of £19bn was based on the assumption that there would [...]
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