The BBC notes: The Liberal Democrats have called for a mass repeal of 10 parliamentary acts passed by Labour since 1997. A “freedom bill” sets out plans to abolish ID cards, control orders for terror suspects and to end extradition to the US “without proper evidence”.
Michael White writes in The Guardian: For a man who has invested so much political capital in promoting biometric ID cards Tony Blair rarely sounds convincing on the subject. At his monthly press conference yesterday he again failed to convince. Yet the scheme will hurtle towards fruition long after he is politically dead. Is the [...]
The Daily Telegraph carries an article under Tony Blair’s name entirely devoted to advocating ID Cards and the National Identity Register: On any list of public concerns, illegal immigration, crime, terrorism and identity fraud would figure towards the top. In each, identity abuse is a crucial component. It is all part of a changing world: [...]
Henry Porter writes in The Guardian about the spread of powers of intrusion and control by state and private corporations. He concludes: Parliament has not only been sidelined by a presidential prime minister who believes that there should be a national database containing everyone’s DNA, and who regards the ID card as a symbol of [...]
The Telegraph leader-writer comments: History will record that the most baleful legacy of New Labour is not its alarming incompetence or its mendacity in the conduct of public affairs – shameful though they are – but the way in which it has destroyed our privacy. … New Labour has used the shock of the 9/11 [...]
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