Henry Porter writes in The Observer about the need for a privacy law:
Put in simple terms, the citizen is deemed to owe more to the state than ever before and in an era of anticipation – intelligence-led policing, early intervention in problem families and so forth – data sharing is essential for the authorities. What [...]
The BBC reports on possible abuse of government databases in Serbia by those protecting Radovan Karadzic:
[Karadzic] had been posing as an expert in alternative medicine, using the name of Dragan Dabic.
The real Mr Dabic told the BBC that he had never lost his identity card, which correspondents say raises suspicions that it was cloned by [...]
Kable’s Government Computing reports on the Home’s Office’s response to the Commons’ Home Affairs Select Committee’s report, “A Surveillance Society?”:
On the committee’s key recommendation of personal data minimisation, the response says that the Cabinet Office review of data handling by Sir Gus O’Donnell insists that all departments issue an information charter, and that the standard [...]
Leo King writes in ComputerWorld UK:
The union representing passport service workers has slammed the planned roll out of automated passport and ID cards processing as it has lead to job cut plans at the Identity and Passport Service agency.
The Public and Commercial Services Union said human processes were being automated, and resources were being “diverted” [...]
Solomon Hughes writes in Tribune about De La Rue, a printing company:
The “war on terror” involves both military adventures abroad and “homeland security” programmes. The new “anti-terrorist” bureaucracies, databases and systems have been a bonanza for American corporations. In Britain, the biggest business provided by the “war on terror” involves the proposed national identity card [...]
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