Separate articles byHenry Porter and AC Grayling, published today, cite government ID cards legislation as evidence of Tony Blair’s disregard for civil liberties and individual rights. AC Grayling writes on the Guardian Comment is Free web site:
Watch out: Mr Blair is setting out his stall on yet further reductions still in British civil liberties. Despite [...]

An article in Card Technology magazine notes:
The Future of Identity in the Information Society, a project to explore identity issues in Europe, has launched a survey to gauge Europeans’ attitudes about electronic identification programs. Online at www.surveymonkey.com /s.asp?u=431712121747, the survey asks how strongly one agrees or disagrees with statements such as how much one supposes [...]

Nick Cohen writes in The Observer:
Close to where I live in London, a NO2ID group has sprung up to persuade Conservative, Lib Dem and Green councillors to order the local authority to refuse to co-operate with ID cards.
Similar campaigns are getting going in all kinds of towns – Glossop, Rhyl, Leek, Chippenham – places you [...]

The IT providers who stand to make billions from the government’s dodgy ID scheme are complaining that it appears to have been rushed with the government more concerned with making it appealing to the public than actually deciding what it should be for. Read about it at Computer Weekly. Yeah – they figured [...]

George Jones writes in the Telegraph:
A Conservative government would build more prisons with the money saved from scrapping Labour’s £15 billion programme for national identity cards, David Davis said yesterday.
The party’s law and order spokesman said that more jails were needed after Ann Owers, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, issued a warning that the prison [...]