Bruce Schneier writes nicely in Wired on the importance of privacy:
Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.
With loss of privacy we also lose our freedom to speak our minds and act as we see fit:
This is the loss of freedom we face when our [...]
Former Home Secretary David Blunkett spoke about immigration and ID cards in an interview with Jim Naughtie on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Wednesday 14th June:
Naughtie: Let me ask you – because as you say the Home Office is engulfed in difficulties – about amnesties and illegal immigration. The immigration minister made a statement [...]
Andrew Murray-Watson writes in the Sunday Telegraph:
The roll-out of the Government’s controversial identity card scheme is set to be delayed by a Home Office failure to begin the procurement process on schedule.
The Sunday Telegraph has learnt that the process of allocating contracts to private companies to build and manage the ID card scheme was due [...]
The BBC reports:
Secret estimates of the benefits and risks of identity cards must be published, the freedom of information watchdog has told the government.
The Department of Work and Pensions drew up a report on how the cards could help fight identity fraud.
It refused a Lib Dem request for the report to be published. But Information [...]
SA Mathieson has written a good background piece for Technology Guardian on the centralisation and (non-)security of personal data:
You might think your personal data is safe, secured under computerised lock and key, and fenced by the Data Protection Act with its sanctions against release of private data. Especially, surely, that which the government holds.
The reality [...]
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