Ben Leapman writes in the Sunday Telegraph:
The official appointed to oversee the Government’s controversial identity card scheme has already played a central role in a public-sector computer disaster.
James Hall, who began work last week as chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), was previously a partner at the consultancy firm Accenture.
His last job [...]
Tony Collins writes in Computer Weekly:
The government is to hire internal and external legal experts, including a Queen’s counsel, to try to block the publication of Gateway reviews of its ID cards programme – a scheme which ministers affirmed last week would go ahead at a cost of £5.4bn over 10 years.
The Office of Government [...]
Angus Marshall, a senior lecturer in forensic science at the University of Teesside, writes in the Yorkshire Post about ID Cards. After describing several well-known problems with the scheme, he makes this intriguing aside:
And finally, as a thought experiment, some of my colleagues and I have conceived a way to bring the ID-card system [...]
David Meyer writes on the ZDNet UK web site:
A leading critic of the Government’s identity cards programme has lashed out at the official estimated cost of the scheme.
Professor Ian Angell, of the information systems department at the London School of Economics, told ZDNet UK that the report issued to Parliament on Monday was a “political [...]
In an article on Monday’s Home Office ID Cards cost estimate, Richard Ford, writing in The Times, notes further function creep:
In a new tactic the Home Office is promoting identity cards as a way of tackling illegal immigration and illegal working: key political concerns of the public. The Home Office highlighted how they could be [...]
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