Computing magazine reports:
MPs have agreed a timetable for detailed discussion of the identity documents bill and it is likely to become law by the end of July.
The identity documents bill aims to scrap the ID cards scheme which was implemented by the last government.
A detailed timetable for line-by-line discussion was adopted by the Commons committee [...]

Martin Beckford and Heidi Blake write in The Daily Telegraph:
A secret report on Labour’s controversial child protection database found “significant risks” to security.
The official study, which ministers refused to publish for more than two years, disclosed that “residual” dangers remained in ContactPoint despite efforts to make the system safe.
It pointed out that security standards differed [...]

Tony Collins writes in his blog at Computer Weekly:
The British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting, which starts today in Brighton, will hear a motion from the Northern Ireland Council which says:
“This Meeting believes that there has been little demonstrable benefit to the National Programme for IT for the NHS with an unacceptably high cost to [...]

Alan Johnson MP, former Home Secretary, writes in the Yorkshire Post:
The DNA database has identified 410,589 crimes with a DNA match over the last decade.
Last year in 800 of the most serious cases – murder, rape and manslaughter – DNA was central to police inquiries.
The Government plans to reduce the DNA matches that the police [...]

Dominique Lazanski, Dan Hannan MEP and Douglas Carswell MP write in Public Servant magazine:
It has been nearly a month now since the Queen’s Speech and already we are seeing some u-turns on the coalition programme’s agreement. The Summary Care Record database was going to be scrapped and then Simon Burns stated in the Commons that [...]