According to the BBC:
An inquiry into the growing use of surveillance in society is to be held by an influential committee of MPs.
The Commons Home Affairs committee is about to announce the inquiry, leader of the Commons Jack Straw told MPs.
The Information Commissioner last year warned the UK risked “sleep-walking into a surveillance society”.
It is [...]
NO2ID’s message is clearly getting through to the media in the run up to ID Day.
Mark Ballard writes in The Register:
Rough fraud figures published by the Identity and Passport Service today have become the government’s latest justification for its identity card plans.
The Home Office estimated that 10,000 fraudulent passport applications were approved in the 11 months to October 2006. But its figures were only partial and the Home Office refused [...]
Bill Goodwin writes in Computer Weekly:
Publication of independent reviews into the government’s ID cards project would set a precedent that would lead to open confrontation between government departments, a freedom of information tribunal heard last week.
Peter Gershon, the former civil servant responsible for introducing Gateway reviews of government IT projects, said that publication of reports [...]
Bill Goodwin writes in Computer Weekly:
Government lawyers this week began a legal battle to prevent the publication of confidential reports into the feasibility of the £5.4bn ID cards programme.
The Office of Government Commerce, a Treasury agency, is pitting itself against the information commissioner in a five-day hearing that will determine whether it has the right [...]
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