Phil Miller writes in The Herald:
Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC, one of Britain’s leading defenders of human rights law, yesterday lambasted the proposed introduction of ID cards.
Speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, she said she would “go to the wall” rather than accept their introduction in Britain. “I am damned if they (the government) will [...]
The Evening Standard reports:
[Home] Office staff are hacking into the department’s computers, putting at risk the privacy of 40million people in Britain.
The revelation undermines Government claims that sensitive information being collected for its controversial ID Cards scheme could not fall into criminal hands.
The security breaches occurred at the Identity and Passport Service, which is setting [...]
Paul Malone, writing in the Canberra Times, catalogues recent abuses of personal data in government databases in Australia:
Tens of thousands of public servants have access to databases with information about you and me. In the Defence Department alone there more than 10,000 staff who are certified users of the personnel-management system that held the records [...]
Michael Cross writes in The Guardian:
Ministers are preparing to overturn a fundamental principle of data protection in government, the Guardian has learned. They will announce next month that public bodies can assume they are free to share citizens’ personal data with other arms of the state, so long as it is in the public interest.
The [...]
The BBC reports:
Two Welsh councils have been criticised by a senior Labour MP over their opposition to the UK Government’s ID card scheme.
Cardiff and Ceredigion councils said they have pledged to frustrate the use of ID cards by all legal means.
The councils say the disadvantages of the scheme outweigh the benefits and also object on [...]
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