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Archive for September, 2007

Passport adverts attacked as ‘pornography’ and ‘encouraging casual sex’

Posted at Sunday, September 9th, 2007 by andrew

The Mail on Sunday reports that the Identity and Passport service has managed to make compulsory interviews for first-time passport applicants even more controvertial than they already were: The Home Office was under attack last night over a ‘pornographic’ advertising campaign which features young holidaymakers in sexually explicit poses. The four advertisements are aimed at [...]

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Lewis: Telegraph should be a paper ‘for all of Britain’

Posted at Friday, September 7th, 2007 by andrew

Dominic Ponsford writes in the Press Gazette: Although the Daily Telegraph is traditionally seen as the �in-house paper of the Conservative Party�, editor Will Lewis has signalled his intention to make it a paper �for all of Britain�. … When asked whether The Telegraph was moving towards the political centre ground Lewis says: �I don�t [...]

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It is time for privacy debates to grow up

Posted at Thursday, September 6th, 2007 by andrew

Sarah Arnott, writing a comment piece in Computing, says that ID card critics should give the Home Office the benefit of the doubt when discussing the scheme: The danger is that the potential for the scheme to have genuine benefits will be lost in a flurry of shrill narrow-mindedness. The Home Office may bang too [...]

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All UK ‘must be on DNA database’

Posted at Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 by andrew

The BBC reports: The whole population and every UK visitor should be added to the national DNA database, a senior judge has said. Lord Justice Sedley told BBC News the current England and Wales database, which holds DNA from crime suspects and scenes, was “indefensible”. He added it would be fairer to include “everybody, guilty [...]

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Offender of the faiths

Posted at Saturday, September 1st, 2007 by andrew

James Button has interviewed British philosopher A C Grayling for The Age in Australia. During a wide-ranging interview, Grayling spends some time discussing the proposed UK Identity Card scheme: [The British Government] wants to introduce a biometric identity card – which would recognise people by their iris or another body part – linked to a [...]

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