Jill Palmer writes in Tribune about the Summary Care Record roll-out:
People will want to be reassured that their confidentiality is preserved, that their data is not at risk from hackers. Many distrust the Government on its ability to safeguard the personal data it retains on computer systems, as its track record on data security is [...]

Laura Clark writes in the Daily Mail:
A school has provoked uproar after taking children’s fingerprints without permission from their parents.
Pupils were ‘frogmarched’ to be fingerprinted so they could use touch screens in the canteen to have money deducted from their account, thereby speeding up lunch queues.
Capital City Academy in Brent, north London, was later forced [...]

Janet Street Porter writes in the Daily Mail:
The other day I received an NHS communique entitled ‘changes to your health records’, informing me that my personal information would soon be stored in something called a summary care record or SCR.
This glossy booklet contained huge easy-to-read type and pictures of the correct ethnic mix of NHS [...]

Peter Bradwell writes in Guardian Comment is Free:
We live in a database society. It is probably time we started getting used to it. The amount of information generated about us is only going to increase and the willingness to use it is not going to diminish. As technology develops and the will to manage, control [...]

Vince Cable MP, writing in the Mail on Sunday, says that voters want to be told, honestly, what changes to expect
in future public spending:
In that spirit, my Liberal Democrat colleagues have identified specific cuts worth £15billion which, after allocating some money to priorities such as employment and schools, saves £10billion. I don’t pretend that [...]