Charlotte Gore writes on Guardian Comment is Free:
Britain’s government is not constitutionally limited in its reach and power. The only check against absolute power of the government is other politicians voting in the two houses. For example, Jack Straw attempted to give himself the power to be able to access any data in the country [...]
The Register reports:
Speaking during a crime debate on BBC Daily Politics programme on 20 April 2010, Alan Johnson said scrapping the identity card scheme at this stage would be counterproductive and a “waste”.
“The money all comes back because we charge for ID cards. If we stop now you’ve wasted all the capital investment and you [...]
Stephen Glover writes in the Daily Mail, advocating an explicit opt-in for databases of personal information, including the Summary Care Record:
I shouldn’t have to take the time and trouble to visit a website or fill in a form to ensure that my personal information is not put on a database. The NHS should write to [...]
Arthur Martin writes in The Daily Mail about television historian Dan Snow’s attempt to evacuate Britons stuck on the Continent:
It had started in high hopes as the 31-year-old set sail from Dover early on Sunday at the head of a squadron of five speedboats.
Moved by the plight of his friend Sam Peters’ wife Debs, who [...]
Jean-Paul Flintoff writes in The Times about the forthcoming film “Erasing David”, in which film-maker David Bond attempts to elude private detectives:
The journalist and privacy campaigner Henry Porter told Bond that privacy is like eyesight, or touch: “It’s that important.” Phil Booth, national co-ordinator of the campaign No2ID, broadly agrees. “Privacy is not something that [...]
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