William Heath, over at Ideal Government blogs on the conspiracy of lies silence in government over the costs of ID cards – see the boilerplate responses from several government departments, and William’s take on what they really mean to say: This information is politically sensitive and to release it would be prejudicial to the acceptability [...]
IEEE Spectrum magazine is the flagship publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the world’s largest professional technology association: it’s read by over 385,000 technology professionals and senior executives worldwide. January sees the magazine’s annual “Best and Worst Technology Projects” issue, where it rates the Home Office Identity Cards proposals as one of [...]
Melissa Kite writes in the Sunday Telegraph: Town hall bureaucrats are to be given sweeping new powers to investigate homes for identity card evasion and to impose heavy fines on occupants found without one. The revelation, in an obscure Whitehall consultation paper, calls into serious doubt the Government’s repeated promises that planned ID cards, already [...]
The DNA profiles of nearly four in 10 black men in the UK are on the police’s national database – compared with fewer than one in 10 white men, according to figures compiled by the Guardian. Civil liberties groups and representatives of the black community said this offered evidence that the database reinforced racial biases [...]
The Government announced shortly before Christmas that it is creating a database for all children in the UK, to be up and running by 2008. It will cost £224 million to set up, £42 million per year to run, and according to the government will contain the following information: “The Index will hold the following [...]
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