Anne Johnstone writes in The Glasgow Herald: In November 2006, Richard Thomas, the UK Information Commissioner, gave a speech in which he warned the British public that we were “sleepwalking into a surveillance society”. Now we’re waking up to find we’re already there. The year 2008 may not have quite the same ring as 1984 [...]
Steven Morris writes in The Guardian: Gordon Brown joined Labour’s rearguard action to save the once-safe seat of Crewe and Nantwich in tomorrow’s byelection by taking part in a radio phone-in yesterday. It seems the attempt to position ID cards as an anti-immigration measure may indeed come right from the very top: Another caller to [...]
According to an article in the Crewe and Nantwich Guardian: While activists are descending from all corners of the country to Crewe & Nantwich to help with their partys’ by-election campaigns, volunteers from the Public Whip have set up an online questionnaire to help people make up their minds about who to vote for. The [...]
Richard Ford writes in The Times: A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under [...]
Sarah Arnott writes in The Independent: The technology industry will next week learn who the Government has awarded contracts to supply the £2bn biometric identity card programme, the last and among the most secretive of the recent crop of major public-sector IT schemes. The framework deals under the hammer do not guarantee a role in [...]
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