Emily Garnham writes in the Daily Express:
Labour’s controversial ID card scheme is being rolled out in Manchester from today, after costing the taxpayer an estimated £200million to produce.
The widely hated voluntary ID card scheme – which the Tories have pledged to scrap – will set a family of four back £120.
Gordon Brown’s Government promised the [...]

Daniel Foggo and Jack Grimston write in the Sunday Times:
Parents who want to accompany their children to Christmas carol services and other festive activities are being officially vetted for criminal records in case they are paedophiles.
In the latest expansion of the government’s child protection agenda, parents are checked against a database of people banned from [...]

Mary Wakefield writes in the Independent:
The Human Genetics Commission has reported that police are routinely arresting people to collect DNA for their exciting new database – as if somehow the more hi-tech information they gather the less crime there’ll be. I suspect the opposite may be true. This week I had my first experience of [...]

According to the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion column:
Matthew Zarb-Cousin, a Labour candidate for Thorpe Bay in Southend, wrote recently on Labourlist.org that “a database, where swabs of DNA are taken at birth—and of people coming into the country—is not only fair but also vital…. the only logical objection I could possibly have to it is [...]

Sean O’Neill writes in The Times:
The same voices that sow alarm over DNA also complain loudly about the spread of the “surveillance society”. They fret about the rising number of CCTV cameras, quoting the guesstimate of 4.2 million cameras as fact.
And they stoke up fear over proposals to create a central log of mobile phone [...]