Robert Verkaik writes in The Independent:
Britain must rethink plans for a database holding details of every email, mobile phone and internet visit, Europe’s human rights commissioner has said in an outspoken attack on the growth of surveillance societies. Thomas Hammarberg said that UK proposals for sweeping powers to collect and store data will increase the [...]

Kaya Burgess writes in The Times:
The Labour administration in 1978 believed the introduction of ID cards would be “unacceptable” and “objectionable” in the fight against illegal immigration, confidential documents released today show.
The comments were in a draft statement due to be given to the Commons by Merlyn Rees, the Home Secretary, who wrote that the [...]

Martin Beckford writes in the Daily Telegraph:
Parents will be encouraged to have their children’s personal details hidden on the Government’s child protection database in a move by a rebel council that could sabotage the £224 million project.
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is launching a publicity campaign to let families know how much information [...]

Henry Porter writes on the Guardian Comment is Free web site:
During 2008 it became clear to what extent the British government was pushing ahead with the database state, which incidentally would have brought admiring sighs from Havel’s old foes in the Czech secret police, the StB. The British state has decided to know everything about [...]

Robert Winnett writes in the Daily Telegraph:
Richard Timney has written a series of letters to the Redditch Advertiser, in the Home Secretary’s constituency, defending controversial plans for ID cards and attacking the Conservatives.
In the letters, Mr Timney fails to declare that he is married to Ms Smith or that he is paid £40,000 a year [...]