Jackie Ashley writes in The Guardian about the proposed National Identity Register: The government is going to introduce a single system for all our identities. And I promise, you can’t trust it. First, it will leak like a battered old bucket. Oh yes, there will be ministerial statements. Apologies. Inquiries. Expensive new IT consultants will [...]
The Mail on Sunday’s leader-writer comments on the MoD’s loss of details of 600,000 service personnel and potential recruits: Even more important, existing Government projects for mass registration of personal details can no longer be justified. The arguments for a National Identity database and for all-encompassing computerised central medical records were always weak. Now the [...]
Tony Gurney writes in the Arran Voice: The government’s plans to introduce ID cards received a fresh blow today as North Ayrshire Council voted not to co-operate with any introduction of the controversial documents. A motion introduced by Tony Gurney, SNP Councillor for Ardrossan and Arran, called on the council to write to the Home [...]
The NewsWales web site reports: A Welsh Liberal Democrat debate calling for ID Cards not to be used to access public services in Wales has been passed with unanimous cross party support. The vote guarantees that any move to introduce ID cards by Labour in Westminster will have no impact on access to health and [...]
John Lettice writes in The Register: Immigration minister Liam Byrne has concealed what looks like further ID card slippage and set himself a remarkably unchallenging series of immigration and border control targets in a “ten point plan” for 2008. Humorously described by the Home Office as “challenging”, the plan consists largely of low targets, targets [...]
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