Jason Lewis writes in the Mail on Sunday:
New concerns have been raised about the use of innocent people’s DNA in police investigations.
Figures obtained by The Mail on Sunday show that detectives are ordering weekly searches of the DNA database for people with no immediate connection to any crime.
The searches are used when crime scene DNA [...]

According to The Register:
Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will report to Parliament later this year on the degree to which UK citizens are put under surveillance.
The study will be a follow up to a previous ICO report which said that citizens were at risk from growing pressure in Government to share information between [...]

Tom Young writes in Computing:
It is impossible to tell whether identity cards have been obtained fraudulently, according to the first report by the Office of the Identity Commissioner.
Identity Commissioner Sir Joseph Pilling was appointed to oversee the government’s ₤5.4bn National Identity Scheme and issued his first update today.
Although widely supportive of the way the scheme [...]

Mark Ballard writes in Computer Weekly:
The Identity and Passport Service is rethinking its ID card scheme after ditching a major design component.
The IPS dropped its plan to use another government database to keep biographical details of identity card holders, one of three core architectural principles established for the scheme in 2006.
He notes:
The IPS now faces [...]

According to The Register:
A new poll shows that Britons are becoming increasingly concerned about the type of personal information held by the government.
Just under two thirds of respondents said they are against the government centralising information about citizens so it can be shared between different government departments.
The ‘State of the Nation’ poll carried out for [...]