According to the ZDnet web site:
The Cabinet Office has disclosed the dates that its civil liberty bills should pass Parliament, including the Identity Documents Bill.
A government document titled Political reform, draft structural reform plan says that the Identity and Documents Bill, which also includes scrapping the National Identity Register and the halting of fingerprints on [...]

Andrew Donoghue writes in eWeek Europe about the Government’s Smart Meter initiative, which would see every home electronically submit electricity meter readings to a central database every 30 minutes:
Current estimates of the smart meter elements of the project are around £3.6 billion over the next 20 years, which seem hopelessly out of whack. The ID [...]

Rebecca Smith writes in the Daily Telegraph:
A senior GP is urging other doctors to boycott the online medical records system by refusing to upload their patients’ details, it has emerged.
Dr Paul Cundy, former chairman of the British Medical Association’s IT committee has urged GPs across the country to block the uploading of patient records at [...]

According to the Daily Mail:
Voters should be required to present proof of identity when they go to the polls as part of a massive overhaul of Britain’s voting system, the official elections watchdog said today.
The Electoral Commission has called on ministers to take ‘immediate action’ to prevent a repeat of the chaos in the General [...]

James Slack writes in the Daily Mail about the news that Raytheon has had its contract for eBorders terminated:
A £1.2billion ‘electronic borders’ system which is supposed to protect Britain from illegal immigrants, terrorists and foreign criminals descended into shambles last night.
The Government sacked the U.S.-based firm paid by Labour to introduce the programme after it [...]