Chris Williams writes in The Register:
The Conservatives have called on the government to explain why supposedly impartial civil servants have intervened in a political argument over how sensitive data on children should be stored and shared.
Earlier this week the Department for Children, Schools and Families wrote to local authorities to argue that Labour’s plans for [...]
Meanwhile, in local news, Rachel Extance writes in the Cambridge News:
Plans to introduce ID cards have been attacked by Cambridgeshire County Council.
Councillors said the scheme – which the Government claims will boost national security – would be as much use for protecting Cambridgeshire residents from terrorism as “chocolate teapots”.
The council resolved to make representations “at [...]
Nick Heath writes on Silicon.com:
A Home Office minister has mooted turning UK driving licences into ID cards, sparking accusations the national biometric database will be forced in by the back door.
Speaking today at the Biometrics Conference 2008, identity minister Meg Hillier said there was “nothing to stop” drivers’ licences or other documents from being designated [...]
Christopher Hope writes on the Daily Telegraph web site:
Centuries of British civil liberties risk being broken by the relentless pressure from the ‘security state’, the country’s top prosecutor has warned.
Outgoing Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald warned that the expansion of technology by the state into everyday life could create a world future generations [...]
Henry Porter writes in The Observer about the Intercept Modernisation Programme:
The Home Secretary is remorseless. Last Wednesday she announced a typical New Labour consultation on the government’s Interception Modernisation Programme that will gather and store the information from all emails, internet connections and phone calls. ‘I want this (consultation),’ she said, ‘to be combined with [...]
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