Sarah Arnott, writing in Computing, reports continuing IT industry comment on the argument between the Tories and Intellect over the ID cards scheme:
But industry experts say companies working with the government are well-used to potential changes in policy, and the row illustrates little more than the sensitivity of the ID cards issue.
‘All this is just [...]
George Jones writes in The Telegraph:
People who get identity cards will have their fingerprints checked against those found at the scene of nearly a million unsolved crimes, Tony Blair said last night.
Mr Jones points out:
[This] appears to contradict an assurance given by Tony McNulty, a Home Office Minister, when the legislation was going through the [...]
Patrick Hennessy writes in the Sunday Telegraph:
Ministers plan to force all adults to travel miles at their own expense to fingerprint scanning units so their details can go onto an identity card database. From 2009, everyone will have to attend one of 69 “interview centres”, whose locations are revealed today for the first time.
People without [...]
After last week’s launch of an anti-ID card campaign by shadow Home Secretary David Davis, we’re starting to see local Tory MPs and candidates go on the record criticising the scheme. Here’s one reported in the Cambridgeshire Times:
Identity cards are a bad idea, says MP Malcolm Moss, who this week added his voice to the [...]
Matthew Parris writes in The Times:
A blazing row broke out this week between the Conservative Party and the IT industry. Though it has a critically important bearing on the government policy at issue — Labour’s compulsory identity card scheme — this row is really about our unwritten constitution. It is a dispute in which David [...]
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