Timothy Garton Ash writes in The Guardian:
This has got to stop. Britain’s snooper state is getting completely out of hand. We are sleepwalking into a surveillance society, and we must wake up. When the Stasi started spying on me, as I moved around East Germany 30 years ago, I travelled on the assumption that I [...]

According to The Anorak:
This is, as it is claimed, the scan of an internal document of the Identity and Passport Service. It’s about the plans for the UK’s identity card scheme …

John Lettice, writing in The Register, has further analysis of recent Home Office leaks:
Teachers and 16 year olds are the favoured ’soft targets’ for the redesigned ID card scheme rollout, according to an Identity & Passport Service planning document seen by The Register. As suggested in leaks last weekend, IPS now plans to soft-pedal fingerprints [...]

According to The Financial Times’ leader:
In the two years since legislation for a UK national identity card scheme gained royal assent, the case against the multi-billion pound programme has become overwhelming. The government’s arguments in favour have crumpled. Now, if leaked official documents are to be believed, its roll-out is to be delayed until 2012. [...]

Francis Elliott writes in The Times:
The Government is looking at using “coercion” tactics as a way of introducing the controversial ID card scheme, a leaked memo suggests.
The Home Office document said that young people could be made to apply for an ID card when they applied for a driving licence.
Gordon Brown has always insisted that [...]