According to the BBC: Home Secretary Alan Johnson has dropped plans to make ID cards compulsory for pilots and airside workers at Manchester and London City airports. The cards were due to be trialled there – sparking trade union anger. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said that the reverse in policy was “an absurd fudge” [...]
Scott Macnab writes in The Scotsman: THE Scottish Government has stepped up calls for the UK identity card scheme to be scrapped. Recently appointed home secretary Alan Johnson is being urged to cancel the cards as he reviews his new portfolio. The SNP administration has long opposed the scheme, which will cost an estimated £1.1 [...]
James Chapman writes in the Daily Mail: David Cameron will repeal a raft of laws that have eroded civil liberties under plans for the first days of a Conservative government. The Tory leader yesterday warned Labour has created a ‘control state’ with sweeping powers to intrude into people’s private lives. Officials now have more than [...]
Computing reports: Commons leader Harriet Harman has been forced to again deny repeated claims in the House of Commons that the government is about to perform a U-turn over ID cards. The deputy Labour leader insisted there was no change in policy but said home secretary Alan Johnson was keeping the plan under review. Pressed [...]
David Moss writes in Pharmacy Magazine (text, JPG) about Home Office proposals that pharmacists should collect biometrics for the National Identity Scheme. He concludes: Suppose that 20 per cent of the customers who register their biometrics with you are then informed that they have no right to work. Is that likely to increase the goodwill [...]
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