Accordiong to Henry Deedes, writing in the Independent’s “Pandora” column, the BBC is “planning a hard-hitting drama series tackling the thorny issue of government ID cards”:
The series, called The Last Enemy, will star upcoming Blood Diamonds actor David Harewood. Set sometime in the near future, the plot centres around grizzly murders carried out with the [...]

A Dutchman has obtained an official ID card showing him disguised as a clown.

Tim Hall writes in the Daily Telegraph:
Measures to tighten Britain’s borders will be announced today in the latest bid to crack down on illegal immigration.
Border staff will be given new powers, including the rights to fingerprint and digitally store the photograph of any foreign national arriving in the country. The move is expected to pave [...]

Bill Goodwin writes in Computer Weekly:
The Home Office was quick to deny a u-turn when it published its new Strategic Action Plan just before Christmas.
But it is clear that the national identity cards project will now be radically different, and simpler, than originally envisaged. In the words of one industry commentator, “It is a u-turn [...]

Tom Espiner writes on the ZDNet web site:
The Home Office announced in December that the National Identity Register — the planned database behind the controversial ID cards scheme — would comprise three existing databases. The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) and the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) databases [...]