Jerry Fishenden writes in The Register about President Obama’s plans for online identification in the USA: The President’s cunning plan is that by using OpenID and Information Card technologies, US citizens will be able to use their existing online digital identities rather than having to register yet another ID and password to make use of [...]
Nick Heath writes at Silicon.com: The controversial ID project has hit another delay, with the government missing its own deadline to get the cards into the hands of Manchester residents. The Home Office announced today that people living or working in Manchester will now be able to enrol their details for an ID card from [...]
Tom Whitehead writes in the Daily Telegraph: The Identity and Passport Service spent a £42 million on developing both the ID cards and biometric passport programmes in the six months since March this year. That was equivalent of £229,508 every day – the highest amount of spending on the joint scheme so far. In 2008/09, [...]
Jenni Russell writes in The Sunday Times: David Cameron gets it. Last week he had the good sense to say what many people know to be true, but fear to articulate: that all too often the government’s bureaucratic schemes to protect children have so many unintended consequences that they end up making children more vulnerable [...]
The Daily Mail reports: A high-flying city lawyer was fired from her £150,000-a-year job after a ‘routine security check’ revealed her DNA was held on the national database – over a ‘false allegation’ made against her. Lorraine Elliott said that she felt ‘gobsmacked and depressed’ after bosses spotted her file during ‘background clearance’ checks as [...]
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