Mark Ballard writes in The Inquirer:
The UK Home Office has said it will not be using criminal data types to test the National Identity Register, a week after it said it would be using criminal data types to test the National Identity Register.
The Home Office has arranged to borrow millions of fingerprint records from the [...]
Dean Carroll writes in Public Servant magazine:
The claims from ministers that ID cards will help to prevent terrorism are “absolute bunkum” according to a leading figure within the electronic security arm of GCHQ.
Instead, the cards are an essential part of the transformational government agenda that will require all public bodies to share information in [...]
Philip Johnston, writing in the Daily Telegraph, analyses David Blunkett’s assertion that it is “economically illiterate” to suggest that savings would be made by abandoning plans for a national ID database:
In 1995, a 10-year adult passport cost £18. Today, it will set you back £72. When the passport is combined with an ID card, the [...]
Simon Jenkins uses his final column in the Sunday Times to attack both the National Identity Scheme and the Intercept Modernisation Programme:
Last week GCHQ lobbyists took to the press declaring that any opposition to Smith’s surveillance plan would be “disastrous” for national security. They even wheeled out the familiar back-up argument for those who might [...]
According to Out-law magazine:
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said that a single database of phone and internet usage records would undermine the “British way of life”. The privacy watchdog has said that it will scrutinise Government plans for storing that information.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith last week talked for the first time about what the [...]
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