Colin Brown writes in The Independent:
Liberal Democrat leaders are to mount an attack on Britain’s “surveillance society” that threatens to wreck Gordon Brown’s hopes of a cross-party consensus on measures to tackle the threat of terrorism.
In a strategic break with the Prime Minister, Sir Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat leader, and his home affairs spokesman [...]
Computer Business Review carries an article the ID cards tender process. It concludes:
We remain skeptical of any tangible benefit being realized from NIS, and believe that commercial organizations will find it hard to justify the expense and investment necessary to widen its overall participation. Given that there seems to be an iron political will to [...]
The Conservative Party’s Economic Competitiveness Policy Group, co-chaired by John Redwood, has factored savings from axing the ID cards scheme into its policy proposals, released today. The Daily Mail reports Mr Redwood’s comments:
He said the Tories would share the proceeds of economic growth, which he claimed would pay for both tax cuts and boost public [...]
In what appears to be a reversal of a policy previously announced by ministers, James Hall (Pasport Service CEO) has told Ian Grant of Computer Weekly about plans to base the proposed ID Card scheme on National Insurance data held by the Department of Work and Pensions:
The DWP customer database will be the primary source [...]
Edward Pearce writes in the Yorkshire Post, offering the Conservative Party some advice:
On the positive question of what to do and how to do it, the best answers are “less” and “slowly”. Incidentally, Cameron should never be afraid of finding himself to the left of this government. Open rather than hesitant opposition to the supercasino [...]
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