Vicki Woods writes in the Daily Telegraph:
I was stunned to read this week about the stupidly named “ContactPoint”: the children’s database that is almost ready to be launched.
“ContactPoint” will include the names, ages and addresses of all 11 million under-18s in England as well as information on their parents, GPs, schools and support services such [...]

Anil Dawar writes in The Guardian:
The launch of a controversial new government database containing details of every child in the country is to be delayed for technical reasons, it was revealed today.
ContactPoint, a £224m computer system carrying personal information about all under-18s, was due to come online in April this year. It will now be [...]

Chris Williams writes in The Register:
UK election scrutineers are pushing for polling stations to require tougher proof of identity to reduce the risk of ballot-rigging, but do not want voters to be forced to bring photo ID.
The stance is a reversal of statements made by Electoral Commission chairman Sam Younger just a year ago.

The BBC web site carries a transcript of a commentary by Katharine Whitehorn, broadcast in Radio 4’s “A point of view” slot:
The great writer and journalist G.K. Chesterton once wrote that he had spent all his life finding out that platitudes were true.
And maybe some of them are, though quite a few are ambiguous. “Ne’er [...]

Rhodri Phillips writes in The Sun:
The Home Office has lost 43 laptops and 94 mobiles over the last three years in the latest data bungle to hit the gaffe-prone department.
It comes days after a memory stick containing the details of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales was misplaced.
The loss of the computers and phones [...]