The BBC reports:
The new Lib Dem leader has pledged to campaign “tirelessly” against “expensive, invasive” ID cards in 2008.
Nick Clegg said the recent data loss “scandals” had created a lack of public confidence in the government’s ability to look after personal information.
In a New Year message to his party, he said: “So let 2008 be [...]

David Davis writes in the Sunday Times:
If Gordon Brown picks one failure from his first six months to learn from, it should be the loss of 25m people’s personal details. If he makes one resolution for 2008, it should be to scrap his reckless plan to introduce compulsory ID cards.
“Discgate” was the result of ministerial [...]

Carol Sarler writes in The Times:
The University College study found that nearly half of children between 8 and 11 are never allowed to leave the house alone. Anxious, upright parents, among them those perfectly prepared to rail against the intrusion of CCTV or identity cards in their own lives, are buying into the equally new [...]

Patrick Wintour writes in The Guardian:
Ministers faced embarrassment over more mislaid data yesterday when they were forced to admit that they did not have details on what information had been lost by nine NHS trusts.
The loss of data potentially covering tens of thousands of patients’ records has been disclosed to the Department of Health by [...]

Ian Swanson writes in the Edinburgh Evening News about new Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg’s attitide to ID cards:
Despite claims he is on the right, the issue with which Clegg has been most closely linked so far has been opposition to ID cards.
And during the leadership campaign he said he would refuse to give his [...]