Andrew Hooke, Chief Operating Officer of PA Consulting Group, writes in the letters pages of the Daily Telegraph: Sir – There have been claims that Sir James Crosby’s independent report for the Treasury on identity assurance (ie, the means of checking identity) undermines government plans for a national scheme. On close inspection, I find this [...]
According to the BBC: The government has persistently failed to take data protection “sufficiently seriously,” the Joint Committee on Human Rights has warned. Episodes such as the loss of child benefit discs containing 25m people’s details were “symptomatic of lax standards,” said MPs and peers. The report said this did not “inspire confidence” in controversial [...]
Tom Young writes in Computing: The government’s failure to take on board the recommendations of independent reports on the national identity card scheme may lead to faults and extra cost, warn experts. Last week, home secretary Jacqui Smith announced plans for a slower rollout of the £5.4bn ID cards programme, with the government retaining control [...]
According to Sky News: The Ministry of Defence is at the centre of a new security row after it emerged an “extraordinary” 11,000 military ID cards were lost or stolen in the past two years. Opposition parties said the scale of the losses cast fresh doubt on the Government’s plans for a national ID card [...]
According to an analysis in What PC? magazine: … a detailed look at the Crosby report – which was initiated by Gordon Brown when he was chancellor – reveals a more coherent, workable, and less costly alternative to the increasingly ham-fisted and ever-changing plans for ID cards. The former HBOS chief executive recommends a system [...]
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