Jenni Russell writes on the Guardian Comment is Free web site: Once ID cards and e-borders are introduced, the situation will only get worse. New authority over us will be invested in petty functionaries at every level. We will have to produce the card every time we ask for services from the state, whether at [...]
Jamie Thomson writes on the Guardian’s Comment is Free web site about how his DVLA licence database entry was sold to McDonald’s: In 2002 the government passed a law – the Road Vehicles Regulations – which allows the DVLA to sell any drivers personal details to a private company that shows “reasonable cause”, and exempting [...]
Rob Merrick writes in the Liverpool Daily Post: Should I go to jail rather than carry a hated identity card – and will I be able to get myself locked up, even if I try? Those questions have been following me around ever since the “Datagate” scandal broke, with the loss of two CDs bearing [...]
Gareth Crossman writes on The Guardian Comment is Free web site: Liberty has long battled against the “nothing to hide, nothing to fear” fallacy that presumes only criminals place any premium on their privacy. If any good is to come out of the HMRC lost disc fiasco it is possibly that people will not continue [...]
James Cusick writes in the Sunday Herald about rumours on Mr Brown’s plans for ID cards: A Cabinet office source has suggested that “relatively soon” in the New Year, the government could formally announce intentions to accelerate the process of introducing identity cards in Britain, and expand the scale of the biometric data that would [...]
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