Ben Webster writes in The Times: Thousands of flights could be cancelled in a dispute between pilots and the Government over the introduction of identity cards. The British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) said that its members – 84 per cent of the commercial pilots in Britain – would not co-operate with Home Office plans to [...]
Fiona Gray writes in Scotland on Sunday: Scotland has restated it will not support UK plans for compulsory ID cards as Westminster consults on the controversial scheme. Minister for community safety Fergus Ewing branded the proposed national identity scheme a huge waste of money that would cost taxpayers £4.8bn, and said it was an “unacceptable [...]
John Carvel writes in The Guardian about BMA concerns over proposed data-sharing powers: The data-sharing power is included in clause 152 of the coroners and justice bill, which is mainly concerned with reform of coroners’ courts and death certificates. It would let any minister sign an “information sharing order” permitting the passing of data to [...]
BBC Radio 4′s Moral Maze this week is about the Database State. According to the BBC web site: The papers this week are getting themselves in a lather about another government data base. At the moment it’s only in the pilot stages; “e-borders” tracks visitors into and out of the country. But by 2014 the [...]
Polly Toynbe takes a passing swipe at the NIS in an article on the Taxpayers’ Alliance: Does public money get wasted? Of course it does, from failed IT schemes, to wasteful ID cards to ever-escalating Olympic costs.
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