Jessica Geen, writing in Pink News, has put readers’ questions to Nick Clegg: What assurances can you give that the Liberal Democrats would scrap ID cards and the identity database? Sion Lester Every assurance. The ID card system is expensive, illiberal, un-British, and won’t keep us safe from terrorists, stop benefit fraud, cut crime or [...]
Patrick Hayes writes in Spiked Online: Those who argue against ID cards on economic and technical grounds tend to accept that it is reasonable for the government to be checking up on us, and only this particular scheme is flawed. The idea that the state should have no right constantly to demand that we confirm [...]
Tom Whitehead writes in The Daily Telegraph: David Hanson, the policing minister, has been criticised for repeating a case study to MPs as part of a series of examples of why retention of DNA samples of innocent people helps solve crimes. Proposals in the Crime and Security Bill, currently going through parliament, would see the [...]
According to ZDnet: The Home Office said it expects to hold extensive data on 40 percent of international journeys by the end of 2013. Minister Phil Woolas said that the expansion of passenger name record (PNR) data collection will be “on a phased, intelligence-based approach over five years”, and that a maximum of 100 million [...]
According to ZDnet: Identity commissioner Sir Joseph Pilling has expressed concerns about the Identity and Passport Service’s two-stage approach to its core technology. “The IPS have gone for what they call a tactical and a strategic solution to the IT demands of running an ID scheme in this country,” he told the Security Document World [...]
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