Isabel Oakeshott writes in The Times:
Identity cards are to carry medical details, despite repeated government assurances that concerns about privacy meant it would not happen.
A minister at the Home Office disclosed it wants people to put personal health information on the cards to give doctors information for emergencies.
Card-holders will be urged to volunteer details of [...]
Mark Ballard writes in The Register:
Jerry Fishenden, national technology officer at Microsoft UK, told The Register that those IT suppliers that will be expected to implement the ID scheme are concerned about the blinkered approach the government has taken to its preparations.
Any healthy debate about the best way to build what will be the most [...]
In an aside in a Times article on the Home Office’s record on (not) protecting civil liberties, Tim Worstall notes:
On the subject of identity cards [David Blunkett] once said: “No one should fear correct identification.” Those words always remind me of one the more distressing details of the Eichmann trial: how he told his executioner [...]
Andy McCue writes in Silicon.com:
The government says the ID card database will become a national population register of basic personal information for the public sector to verify identity and has called for the development of a children’s register as well.
It seems that our children may not escape compulsory registration after all:
The NIR will only contain [...]
Jean Eaglesham and Maija Palmer write in the Financial Times:
Labour plans to race forward with the contentious identity cards scheme to ensure the multi-billion pound infrastructure is up and running before the next election, neutering a Tory pledge to scrap it.
David Cameron, the Conservative leader, this month said that ID cards were a monument to [...]
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