Andrea-Marie Vassou writes in Computeract!ve: The forthcoming merger of the General Register Office (GRO) and the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has been called a “sinister ploy” by privacy experts. Ross Anderson, professor of Security Engineering at the University of Cambridge, called the move to create another confidential database “pointless” with privacy group No2id describing [...]
A Management Today story mentions rumours that some prospective bidders are backing away from ID cards contracts: Troubled chancellor Alistair Darling could have saved himself a nifty £6bn in Tuesday’s pre-budget report by canning the unnecessary, ill-conceived and wildly unpopular national ID Card scheme. … Now it seems that even the big-name IT companies – [...]
Sue Reaid, writing in the Daily Mial, has been interviewing parents who object to their children being routinely fingerprinted to use school facilities: Roberta Smart is a housewife and mother of two girls, Kelsey, aged nine, and Harley, six. They go to a primary school in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, which has introduced a thumb scanner so [...]
Simon Jenkins writes in the Guardian about Alistair Darling’s pre-budget statement: Darling even turned to the Tory mantra of efficiency savings and “cutting government waste”. He claimed to have identified a staggering £50bn of waste in the public sector over the current decade, presumably again Brown’s doing. These figures are rarely specified, but they do [...]
Metro carries an article on the Public Accounts Committee report “Identity and Passport Service: Introduction of ePassports”: The committee said it was baffled by ‘why citizens need an identity card as well as an ePassport, particularly as the ePassport offers broader utility in terms of global travel’. The committee’s report is here.
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