The Guardian leader-writer comments on Labour’s attempts to link immigration and ID cards in the public’s mind:
… it is obvious that the historically high rate of immigration is producing local pressure points – in terms of services and wider issues as well. Dealing with them is made harder for communities when national politicians talk tough [...]
James Slack writes in the Daily Mail:
The storage of DNA samples taken from innocent people in England and Wales must be stopped, an ethics body has said.
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics called for the law in Scotland – where samples from those found to be innocent are routinely destroyed – to be applied across the [...]
Sarah Arnott writes in Computing:
Fifty potential suppliers to the government’s planned multi-million pound biometric identity card programme participated in the first bidders’ conference last week.
The procurement for the scheme was launched last month and the framework contracts – which will handle up to £2bn of subsequent business – are expected to be signed within nine [...]
Simon Jenkins reflects in The Guardian that “the biggest threat to our freedoms comes not from al-Qaida but from the security bureaucrats and their cronies”:
Our parents would be amazed that, in peacetime Britain, every public space is monitored by police cameras; private movement is traceable by satellites that follow cars and phones; misbehaving citizens can [...]
David Derbyshire writes in the Daily Mail:
Plans for identity cards are “fundamentally flawed” because people are so bad at comparing mug shots to living people, a scientist has warned.
Face recognition expert Dr Rob Jenkins said computers found it just as hard to accurately match photographs of strangers to real people.
In tests, volunteers asked to identify [...]
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