Ian Dunt writes on the politics.co.uk web site:
But don’t get too excited – that was half a century ago. This is the story of how Britain already defeated the identity programme.
On this day, in 1952, Britain rid itself of its first experiment in identity cards. Today, that experiment is beginning again, with airport workers and [...]
Tom Whitehead writes in the Daily Telegraph:
A Government review in to the viability of the ID cards programme must be published after a four year battle to keep it secret.
The so-called Gateway Review, a Whitehall audit, is believed to be critical about the affordability of the £4.7bn scheme and how well it can work.
It was [...]
Timothy Garton Ash writes in The Guardian:
As Dominic Raab writes in his excellent book The Assault on Liberty, this government “has hyperactively produced more Home Office legislation than all the other governments in our history combined, accumulating a vast arsenal of new legal powers and creating more than three thousand additional criminal offences”. At a [...]
Sean O’Neill writes in The Times:
The cost of running Britain’s state-run databases over the next ten years has soared to £34 billion, according to estimates from a new campaign against what it called the surveillance society.
Supporters of the Convention on Modern Liberty claim that spending on computer systems ranging from the NHS Spine to the [...]
According to The Independent’s leading article:
It is a plain fact that, over the past decade, civil liberties in the United Kingdom have been seriously undermined. We now live under a government that detains its citizens for long periods without trial; uses covert surveillance techniques to spy on everyone from organised criminals to litter louts; [...]
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