Tash Shifrin writes for MacWorld UK:
The House of Lords constitution committee has launched an inquiry into the impact that UK government surveillance and data collection on privacy and the relations between citizens and the state.
The inquiry comes with the government pushing for increased data sharing between public sector agencies and controversy over schemes such as [...]

Henry Porter writes in The Observer:
For the voters next Thursday, here are some of the liberties and rights you’ve lost or are in the process of losing:
Your communications are no longer private. Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 500,000 emails and pieces of mail are intercepted every year.
Your home is no longer your castle. [...]

Martin Bright writes in the New Statesman:
… imagine what ministers could do if they had a whole month or more in which to bury bad news. This is just the opportunity presented by the Labour leadership transition, which will last a whole seven weeks. After the local elections all eyes will be on the succession [...]

The Herald has printed a letter detailing the tactics of those who want to avoid having a debate about ID cards and the surveillance society. Here’s an excerpt:
There can be no sensible debate about the ID scheme because the government refuses to enter such a debate. When NO2ID Scotland wrote last year to invite the [...]

Two interesting interviews on Radio 4’s “Today” programme on 26th April about the security breach that published junior doctors’ personal details on the Internet. Also covered are the security of the Summary Care Record and the ID card database:
0727 The Department of Health has admitted a “serious” mistake that allowed personal details of 7000 junior [...]