Archive for February 27th, 2007

ID cards ‘as risky as NHS IT project’

Posted at Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 by andrew

Bill Goodwin writes in Computer Weekly: The government’s proposed ID card scheme is likely to be as risky as the NHS National Programme for IT, and could cost twice the estimated £5.4bn price tag, an independent review has concluded. The review, the first to analyse the project based on the expected demand for ID card [...]

No more secrets

Posted at Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 by andrew

Steve Boggan writes in The Guardian: Earlier this year, Tony Blair announced plans to allow government departments to share more information about us, while rubbishing the suggestion that this would lead to the creation of a “Big Brother” super-database. At the moment, he said, over-zealous rules on data-sharing leave government departments hamstrung. Each one stores [...]

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