Henry Porter, writing in The Observer, suggests that the Tories fight Gordon Brown on a programme of Civil Liberties, including the abolition of ID cards:
A big speech from Cameron on what Labour has done to the constitution, personal liberty and privacy is all that it would take to make the size and reach of the [...]
David Davis writes in the Sunday Telegraph:
With the countdown to Gordon Brown’s succession entering its final days, we still know precious little about where the next Prime Minister stands on many major issues of the day. As Prime Minister, Mr Brown’s first duty will be to protect the public, who – given they have not [...]
From The Guardian’s letters column for 22nd June 2007:
In the coming weeks, parliament will be asked to pass regulations which will allow at least 330,000 users access to detailed and sensitive information on 11 million children, with no evidence that the system proposed can be secured.
Unless the system – called ContactPoint – is secure, the [...]
The Ideal Government Project notes a recent article in Whitehall & Westminster World, where James Hall (chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service) writes:
A recent edition of Whitehall & Westminster World carried an advertorial from campaign organisation NO2ID, which made the usual erroneous assertions about the national identity scheme and public sector data-sharing. I’m [...]
Liam Byrne has been speaking about ID cards at a conference at Chatham House. The BBC reports:
The identity card scheme will become a “great British institution” on a par with the railways in the 19th Century, Home Office minister Liam Byrne says.
He said it was “time to get on with it” and predicted that the [...]
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