Philip Johnston writes in the Daily Telegraph:
Until very recently, it was a central tenet of government that data held by one department should not routinely be available to another. Indeed, many Acts of Parliament specifically outlaw data sharing because of concern that the state would be able to obtain a comprehensive picture of an [...]
Home Office Minister Meg Hillier writes in the letters column of the Financial Times:
The National Identity Scheme will provide the UK with a modern means of confirming identity as well as protecting against the rising problem of identity fraud and all the criminal activities that identity fraud enables. I challenge opponents of the scheme to [...]
According to the Mail on Sunday:
Mass fingerprinting, biometric passports, identity cards and international identity databases will not protect Britain and other European countries from terrorists or criminals.
This startling admission comes in a leaked European Commission report prepared for Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and other EU Home Affairs Ministers.
The report undermines Gordon Brown’s claims about the [...]
According to The Economist:
E-government looks like a potential crock of gold for fraudsters, with huge databases compiled by law, most of them only lightly and incompetently protected, and ambitious plans for even more. The biggest e-government contract anywhere is Britain’s £12.4 billion scheme for centralised medical records, which will be held on a database accessible [...]
Wendy Grossman, writing in her net.wars column, analyses how almost everything about the government’s ID cards scheme has changed in the last six years:
The purpose as mooted between 2001 and 2004 was preventing benefit fraud and making life more convenient for UK citizens and residents. The plan promised perfect identification via the combination of a [...]
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