Tom Espiner writes in ZDNet UK:
Former Tory politician Chris Patten has said that a fundamental lack of understanding in government is to blame for a rash of ill-thought-out technology projects and related legislation in recent years.
Lord Patten of Barnes was especially critical of the government’s ID card scheme, which is heavily reliant on technology. Speaking [...]
David Meyer writes in ZDNet UK:
The government has admitted that it will not rigorously test all aspects of the identity cards scheme before putting it into practice.
The comments were made in the government’s official response last Friday to a report by the House of Commons science and technology committee, entitled “Identity Card Technologies: Scientific Advice, [...]
Tom Espiner reports at the ZDnet UK web site:
The government has admitted that it doesn’t yet have a definite plan for the implementation and management of its ID card scheme, despite having spent £46.4m on the scheme to the end of May this year.
On Thursday, Home Office has promised to published a detailed, definite Identity [...]
Mark Oliver reports in The Guardian on comments made by the home secretary, John Reid, during a visit to the City of London police’s Economic Crime Unit:
Opposition parties have been calling for Mr Reid to make a formal emergency statement about the disappearance of [two terrorism suspects] – said to be dangerous – to the [...]
eGov monitor reports an IPPR press release, in which Danny Sriskandarajah, IPPR Associate Director, said:
If the ID card system has any chance of working, then it will need to include the half a million people living in the shadows. It will be expensive and almost impossible to deport hundreds of thousands of people from the [...]
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