According to the BBC: The Conservatives have accused the government of “mis-selling” ID cards after Alistair Darling appeared to suggest they would be scrapped. The Treasury insists the chancellor was simply restating the government’s position when he said there was no need to go further than biometric passports. But the Tories have written to Gordon [...]
Chris Williams writes in The Register: Personal data belonging to nearly 40 million UK motorists is likely to be abused by foreign officials under new automatic access powers, according to a restricted official report. Drivers’ details such as name, address, motoring convictions and some medical information will be available to more than two dozen European [...]
Martin Beckford writes in The Telegraph: Ministers are under pressure to carry out a complete rethink of the controversial vetting scheme for people working with children and vulnerable groups, despite a last-minute climbdown. Following a review of the scope of the world’s biggest anti-paedophile database, some of its most vocal critics – including famous authors [...]
Mary Riddell and James Kirkup write in the Daily Telegraph: Alistair Darling has cast doubt on the need for ID cards for every Briton. The Chancellor suggested that biometric passports, which carry the same information as ID cards, would be sufficient. In an interview in The Daily Telegraph today, he said there was “probably no [...]
Irena Barker writes in the Times Educational Suplement: All England and Wales’ major headteachers’ leaders – private and state, primary and secondary -have joined forces to demand a complete rethink of new laws designed to protect children from paedophiles, calling them “disproportionate to risk”. The seven associations representing the country’s 27,500 heads have today written [...]
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