Becky Hogge writes in the New Statesman about Whitehall’s centralising instincts and the Database State:
You cannot fix society with computers. People fix society, if you let them. That means freeing nurses, teachers, social workers – and their clients – from the relentless tyranny of Whitehall’s cravings for ever more information. A benevolent state must have [...]

David Blunkett has said that “people do worry” about the ID card database. Shami Chakrabarti writes in The Independent about why they should:
My “worries” lie in the huge threats to privacy, race relations and liberty more generally, posed by this grandiose ambition. Databases are a fact of modern life, but being specific about purpose is [...]

Tom Whitehead writes in the Daily Telegraph:
David Blunkett, the former Home Secretary, has said that the ID card scheme should be scrapped, eight years after he first introduced the idea.
Mr Blunkett raised the prospect of compulsory ID cards in 2001 when he was Home Secretary, but on Tuesday the Labour MP signalled that mandatory biometric [...]

Nigel Morris and Colin Brown write in The Independent:
Senior cabinet ministers are privately discussing a plan to scrap the Government’s £5bn identity cards programme as part of cuts to public spending, The Independent has learnt.
The ministers believe that some “sacred cows” will have to be sacrificed in the effort to reduce Britain’s debt mountain. They [...]

According to Black Mental Health:
A new ‘Reclaim your DNA’ website aimed at helping innocent people contact the police to seek destruction of their DNA and database records has been launched today.
This new online resource offers guidance for the hundreds of thousands of innocent people whose genetic profiles are currently being held of the criminal database.
Welcomed [...]