Mark Ballard writes in The Register: The Department for Education and Skills is to reconsider the fingerprinting of school children after a four year campaign by parents. Jim Knight, schools minister, told Greg Mulholland, campaigning LibDem MP for Leeds North West, in a letter sent on 12 December, that he would “update the guidance on [...]
The Sussex Argus reports comments from Ben Wallace MP (Conservative, Lancaster & Wyre) on the Project IRIS biometric immigration trial at UK airports. He’s read the Home Office report on the trial lodged in the House of Commons library at the end of the December: Mr Wallace told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme: “The pilot [...]
Bill Goodwin writes in Computer Weekly: The government has attacked its own information watchdog for failing to understand the workings of Whitehall, as it gears up to fight an order to publish confidential reports into the ID cards programme. The Office of Government Commerce, which is part of HM Treasury, claimed in legal papers that, [...]
Gavin Aitchison reports in the York Press how the possible imposition of Identity Cards is being used as a justification for other invasions of privacy: Thousands of children in York are being fingerprinted by their schools, including one without parents’ knowledge, The Press can reveal today. Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show [...]
Paul Routledge, writing in The Mirror, comments on the Home Secretary’s December 10 warning that a Christmas terrorist attack was “highly likely”: Given that 52 people died in the July 7 bombings in London, it is only right that we – and the politicians – should be vigilant about possible further threats to our safety. [...]
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