Archive for June 18th, 2009

ID cards: Slippery plastic

Posted at Thursday, June 18th, 2009 by andrew

According to the Guardian leader-writer: The single greatest threat of the new ID infrastructure is to personal privacy, and it is barely touched by the headline row about whether cards should be issued or not. The danger is that individuals will get chewed up in – or, worse, randomly regurgitated by – a monster database. [...]

Home Office delays ID card contract

Posted at Thursday, June 18th, 2009 by andrew

James Boxell writes in the Financial Times: The government’s controversial ID cards scheme appeared to have been kicked “into the long grass” on Wednesday, after the Home Office backed away from a commitment to award a key contract to produce the cards for British citizens this autumn. The so-called “card design and production” contract – [...]

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