Eamonn Butler writes in the Daily Telegraph, reflecting on why government bureaucracies seem obsessed with hoarding every last snippet of information about every individual:
Watford Borough Council’s decision to ban parents from the playground in case they are paedophiles are another case of the Bully State gone mad. We’ve seen it in the past week with [...]

Jason Groves and Ian Drury write in the Daily Mail:
The DNA of innocent people could be stored for six years despite a court ruling that it is illegal.
Leaked emails reveal that Home Secretary Alan Johnson plans to defy the European Court of Human Rights by allowing police to keep swabs and fingerprints of those who [...]

Philip Johnston writes in The Daily Telegraph about the new Independent Safeguarding Authority, arguing that it reflects an official mindset that everyone is a potential criminal:
Child protection has become a vast, self-perpetuating industry whose very existence depends upon maintaining the fiction that all adults are potentially harmful to children. Perversely, even though most abusers are [...]

Jack Doyle writes in The Scotsman:
A TOTAL of 28 million people – more than half the adult population of the UK – would need to sign up for an ID card in order to cover the costs of the scheme, it was revealed yesterday.
Ministers, including Home Secretary Alan Johnson, have said scrapping the scheme would [...]

Paul Lewis and Rob Evans write in the Guardian about police use of the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) database to track vehicles seen at public protests:
Another protester, an IT manager who only wants to be known as John for fear of police retribution, said he was stopped more than 25 times in two and [...]