The Sunday Times’ editorial says: One of the fundamental principles of any society which respects individual liberty is that of consent: nothing can rightfully be done to you, or to your property, unless you agree to it. The Government proposes to violate that principle. It is “floating” the idea of allowing medical researchers and pharmaceutical [...]
Two linked stories on electronic health records. Leo King writes in Computerworld UK: The NHS will push on with its controversial plan for an automatic patient opt-in for healthcare records, even after a government advisory group questioned the ethics and legality of the system. But it has made a fundamental concession to GPs and patients [...]
Nick Heath writes on the ZDnet web site: The government has taken another step towards tying up which companies will be in charge of the UK ID cards scheme. The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has further whittled down the companies shortlisted to deliver parts of the ID card system and passport-application scheme. IBM and [...]
Jane Merrick writes in The Independent about the possibility that the LibDems might hold the balance of power in a hung parliament after the next election, and what policies they might insist upon as the price of their involvement in a coalition government: Mr Clegg has dismissed questions about who he would lean towards if [...]
Martin Beckford writes in the Daily Telegraph: PA Consulting was branded “completely unacceptable” by ministers and lost its three-year contract with the Home Office after an employee mislaid an unencrypted memory stick containing the names, addresses and expected release dates of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales. Its other contracts with the Home Office, [...]
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