Aline Nassif and Danny Brierley write in the Evening Standard:
Hundreds of people living near the Excel centre have been told to carry photo identification as the Met steps up security ahead of the G20 summit.
People who live close to the exhibition centre where Gordon Brown, President Barack Obama and other leaders meet this week have [...]

Jason Lewis writes in the Mail on Sunday:
Passengers on ferries to the Isle of Wight and Scottish islands such as Mull and Skye will soon have to carry identity papers to comply with new police anti-terror powers.
And travellers flying between British cities or to Northern Ireland face having their personal data logged when booking tickets [...]

David Goodhart, writing in Prospect magazine, accuses Liberals of over-reaction that makes it harder to have a rational debate about the database state:
It might be useful if we started to see our data as similar to tax, something we willingly surrender to the authorities in return for various benefits, but over which there is also [...]

Shane Richmond writes on the Daily Telegraph’s Technology blog:
Suppose the Government announced plans to follow every Briton and record their conversations. Imagine a society in which you had to submit lists of your friends to the state. What if photo labs sent the police a copy of every photograph you bring in for developing? Imagine [...]

John Lettice writes in The Register:
Plans to make ID cards compulsory for UK citizens at some point in the middle distance have been officially abandoned, apparently. According to the Home Office’s revised counter-terrorism strategy document, published today, “It is not our intention that identity cards should be mandatory for UK nationals.”
This in some senses reverses [...]