Elizabeth Judge and Joe Bolger write in The Times:
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), the US software group, was left to pick up the pieces yesterday after Accenture walked away from the NHS’s troubled £12.4 billion IT modernisation project.
In the most serious blow yet for the controversial project, which has been beset with delays and glitches, Accenture [...]

Ollie Stone-Lee reports for the BBC web site from the Labour conference in Manchester:
The costs of the identity cards scheme could be cut “quite substantially” by making more use of existing government databases, a minister has said.
Home Office Minister Liam Byrne told a Labour conference fringe meeting he had undertaken a full-scale review of the [...]

Rachelle Money writes in Big Issue Scotland:
More than two thirds of Glaswegians are against controversial national identity cards and the creation of a national database, according to a survey released this week.
Since 2002, when the scheme was first announced, the government has been under fire from critics who claim the proposed cards interfere with civil [...]

Philip Johnston writes about the database state in the Daily Telegraph:
What will Tony Blair be remembered for? The post-war debacle in Iraq? Billions largely wasted on unreformed public services? Half-baked constitutional reforms that have threatened the integrity of the United Kingdom?
How about the erosion of privacy and the transformation of Britain into the most snooped-on [...]

Back in 2002 a group at the Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences in Yokohama famously showed that many fingerprint readers can be fooled by artificial gelatine “fingers”. As the BBC wrote at the time:
Fake fingers made out of common household ingredients can fool security systems that use fingerprints to identify people.
The artificial fingers [...]