Roy Wood (co-founder of the bands The Move, Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard) has been speaking to the Birmingham Sunday Mercury about ID cards:
Remember, the cards would originally need to be issued on the basis of providing ID in the first place, such as a driving licence or birth certificate.
I already have this documentation. Why [...]

Timothy Garton Ash writes in the Guardian about the checklist of reforms he plans to press for in the aftermath of the MPs expenses scandal. Here’s item 8:
Roll back the database state: I’m glad to see Cameron point to the megalomaniac national identity register scheme as evidence of “an increasingly Orwellian surveillance state”. But we [...]

Matthew Hickley writes in the Daily Mail:

Ministers covered up the theft of highly-sensitive personal information on key military personnel including their extramarital affairs, debt problems and drug abuse.
The details were volunteered in strictest confidence by 500 individuals undergoing high-level security vetting before being given access to Top Secret material.
Military insiders fear their loss could leave [...]

Ben Parsons writes in the Brighton Argus:
A pensioner and his daughter said they were victims of a “police state” after an anti-terror unit pulled over their car because it had been spotted at a political protest.
The pair’s experience is expected to provoke a civil liberties debate when they feature in a major TV documentary tonight.
They [...]

Jamie Doward writes in The Observer:
Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, has been warned that the government risks further damaging the public’s faith in politics after it emerged that plans for the police to keep innocent people’s DNA profiles for up to 12 years will become law without a Commons vote.
Opposition parties and civil liberty groups [...]