Jenny McCartney writes in the Sunday Telegraph, dismissing the idea that ID cards could help combat terrorism: So the Government is pushing for a 58-day detention limit for terrorist suspects. It is also intent upon introducing an identity card for every British citizen, including highly personal biometric data which everyone who renews a passport from [...]
Steve Mathieson writes in Computer Weekly about statements made to the House of Lords’ constitution committee by Richard Thomas, the information commissioner: Thomas also told the committee of his concerns on aspects of the government’s identity card scheme. “We continue to question why so much transaction data will be collected,” he said, referring to the [...]
Philip Johnston writes in The Daily Telegraph: Like most readers of this newspaper, I consider myself to be a law-abiding citizen who invariably accepts a decision of Parliament as the law of the land, however barmy or against my personal interests, because it has been democratically arrived at. But there are two matters on which [...]
Sadie Gray writes in The Independent: The cost of a biometric passport and identity card has risen above the £100 barrier after the Government announced that the scheme would cost more than £5.6bn over the next 10 years. Campaigners against ID cards said the bill could rise further after the Home Office’s Identity and Passport [...]
The Guardian carries the Press Association’s report on the latest Home Office ID cards cost estimates: The introduction of identity cards and biometric passports has been denounced as “a vast waste of taxpayers’ money” after the release of a Government estimate putting the cost of the scheme at more than £5.6 billion over the next [...]
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