According to the Independent’s leader-writer: The economic downturn has altered the political landscape in numerous ways, but one constant remains: the Government’s determination to ride roughshod over the privacy of the individual. The Coroners and Justice Bill, published yesterday, proposes to give ministers the right to allow public bodies to exchange sensitive data about each [...]
James Slack, writing in the Daily Mail, comments on renewed proposals to allow secret inquests, setting them in a wider context: It is also part of a wider picture in which the State assumes ever more control over the individual, while slowly stripping them of their own fundamental rights – even in death. Thus, the [...]
According to Scottish Television: Education bosses have been condemned for trying to force pupils in secondary schools to carry ID cards by refusing to serve them school dinners if they do not have one. Scottish Borders Council has told parents that pupils who do not have the electronic microchipped National Entitlement Card (NEC) will not [...]
Rob Minto writes in the Financial Times: Staff in some of the biggest government departments, as well as the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency, can still freely copy unencrypted information from internal databases, in spite of the loss of nearly 30m personal records over the past two years. Information obtained under the Freedom of Information [...]
Meg Hillier MP has had a letter published in this week’s Spectator: Sir: It is nothing short of cynical scaremongering to claim identity cards will put vulnerable women and children at risk, as the No2ID advert does. It is a fact that the scheme will use security protections as good as some military data-bases, with [...]
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