George Jones writing in The Telegraph reports on Tory and LidDem plans to amend the Identity Cards Bill in the Lords:
Tory and Liberal Democrat peers are preparing a New Year ambush for Tony Blair’s flagship identity card scheme that could seriously undermine the legislation.
They are confident of watering down the Government’s plans by making it [...]

Spy.blog reports on the final day of the Committee Stage of the ID cards bill in the House of Lords, and comments once again on the draconian Clause 31 on “Tampering with the Register”.
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Wow – Schneier’s Crypto-gram newsletter is really coming up trumps this month. A great article on the use of data mining practices by the FBI. Sounds a bit like the British police’s DNA database. Even if your innocent, they’ll be hanging on to your sample, just in case.

Why can’t our government really tackle the opportunities identity theft open up to criminals by forcing the banks and credit agencies to take legal responsibility for fraud using stolen identities. Bet you’d see the “cost to the nation” figures plummet. Ah, but that would make one less excuse for building a National Identity [...]

Check out the Home Office web site redesign. Very Web 2.0 don’t you think with all those smooth gradients. I’ll bet there’s some AJAX in there. They’ll need it when this is the portal for registering your every move.
Finally they have realised that keeping the ID cards information within the Community & [...]