David Davis writes in The Independent:
As Tony Blair reflects on his legacy, Taking Liberties, a film released on 8 June, documents how New Labour has undermined our ancient British freedoms over the past decade.
The Government says the rules of the game have changed: the terrorist threat has escalated and we must trade some freedom for [...]
Readers may be interested to see the archaeology of previous government projects to track citizens at the Fuchs’ brothers website which has an eerie set of photos of the Stazi’s secret rooms where they stored files on every person in East Germany (and even jars containing underwear used to identify people by the smell).
If the [...]
Michael Cross writes in The Guardian about the dangers of creating a single point of failure (such as a National Identity Register) in any national government infrastrusture:
A decade after we nerds started using the term, “e-government” has entered the chattering class’s lexicon. “E-government? Isn’t that what they call the town council in Yorkshire?” one of [...]
Victoria Macdonald writes in New Statesman:
The Stasi was relentless in its pursuit of data collection, despite its lack of decent technology. The everyday details of the country’s citizens were instead logged meticulously by pen on paper. In the 21st century, the UK government is equally obsessed with charting our lives, from the pills we take [...]
Sarah Arnott writes in IT Week:
The procurement framework for the national ID card scheme will be in place by the end of the year, with the first contract awards scheduled for the second quarter of 2008, according to the latest timetable.
Sources say formal bidding for inclusion on the framework list is expected to start before [...]
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